Ana Navas
Ana Navas (b. Quito, Ecuador, 1984 and raised in Caracas, Venezuela) is currently based in The Netherlands. Navas studied Fine Arts at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, where she continued as a Meisterschülerin under the guidance of Franz Ackermann from 2010 to 2011. She has participated in several artist residencies, including De Ateliers in Amsterdam, NL (2012–2014), Goethe-Institut in Salvador de Bahía, BR (2016), Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, FR (2017), Escuela FLORA ars + natura in Bogotá, CO (2018), and Fondation Fiminco in Romainville, FR (2020), among others.
Navas’ work has received numerous recognitions, including the Illy SustainArt Award at ARCOmadrid (2022), the NN Art Award at Art Rotterdam (2020), the Kalinowski Prize from the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2018) and has been widely exhibited across Latin America and Europe. Recent exhibitions include “A Veil as a Glaze” (solo show, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL, 2024), “Maddy Arkesteyn & Ana Navas” (duo show as part of Various Others Munich, Sperling, DE, 2024), “Mano a Mano” (duo show with Toon Verhoef, galleries Onrust and tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL, 2024), “Reproductive Matters” (group show, Künstler:innenhaus Bremen, DE, 2024), and “When Things Are Beings” (group show, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL, 2023).
Navas describes her practice as an exploration of the genealogical lineage of objects, tracing their origins and subsequent influences. Her work examines how art can be understood outside of its traditional context, searching for overlaps and transformations between disciplines such as design and ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture.

The presentation by Ana Navas at Paris Internationale is kindly supported by Mondriaan Fonds.

Anousha Payne (b. 1991, lives and works in London) is an artist working across sculpture, painting, text, and sound. Her practice explores the human pursuit of spirituality through objects, examining the liminal space between personal experience, fiction, and myth.

Payne’s ceramic works and hybrid objects often feature reptile-skin motifs and found materials, functioning as memory-archives and cultural signifiers. Sculptures are frequently adorned with textiles or jewelry, highlighting connections between humans, animals, nature, and inanimate forms, while questioning material hierarchies and systems of value. Through this process, she develops a personal visual language informed by meditative engagement with materials. Influenced by Indian folktales and personal mythologies, her work investigates the performative power of objects and the role of chance, weaving moral dilemmas, magic, and transformative characters into immersive narratives.

Recent exhibitions include “Murmurations” at Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, Istanbul, “The Small Things from the Lowest Land” at Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, “A faint glow, a stone and a shark’s tooth” at Sperling, Munich, and a sculpture commission for the permanent collection of York Art Gallery. She is currently in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris