With poetry and precision, Isabelle SIMLER explores the astonishing architecture of the animal world. It is not so much the animals themselves that fascinate her, but the shelters they build: nests, burrows, webs… each a home designed for the intimacy of its inhabitant.

Her illustrations, as delicate as embroidery, reveal these habitats as natural marvels.

Through her play with the French language and the joy of reading aloud, she invites both children and adults to reimagine space — at the scale of an ant, a butterfly, or an eagle.

An exhibition that opens wide the doors of the imagination, offering a vision of the world as a patchwork of living architectures.

A graduate of ESAM Caen-Cherbourg in 2014, Thomas AURIOL lives and works in Saint-Quay-Portrieux. His paintings emerge from his journeys through landscapes, extending this desire for exploration. He conceives his recent work as a logbook that is at once documentary and dreamlike. From the nights of Ibiza to the Icelandic fjords, Thomas Auriol invites us into a painting in constant flux.
His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in France, Spain, and China, and he has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including Novembre à Vitry and Jeune Création in France, as well as in Switzerland and Romania. He has undertaken residencies at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Yishu 8 in Beijing, and aboard the trimaran Arctic Lab, sailing from France to the western fjords of Iceland.

With the support of the Individual Creation Grant from DRAC Bretagne.