For its fifth edition, the Reiffers Initiatives Prize presents the work of eight talented artists from the emerging French scene—Khaled Jarada, Louis Le Kim, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Arthur Marie, Eva Helene Pade, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, Minh Lan Tran, and Manon Wertenbroek—in the exhibition “Tinkering with the Unknown,” staged by Bernard Blistène, Honorary Director of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou.

In their respective practices, some searches focus on forms of sensitive storytelling, where inner tensions and states of transition are the main focus. Khaled Jarada, recipient of the 2026 Honorary Mention, subverts the conventions of drawing through compositions captured in the moment, where figures appear unbalanced, anxious, and out of sync. His work explores this state of transition, drawing on his own experience of exile and displacement.

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