An exhibition about what has been done and what remains to be said.

A presentation of a year-long residency by Tom Magnier at Glassbox, carried out in collaboration with his students from Lycée Professionnel Arthur Rimbaud in La Courneuve.

Text by Emmanuel Guy. With contributions by Murielle Jean-Claude, Rachel Lang, Shamsi El Bouhali, Soraya Abdou, Riad Amghar, Moussa Diallo, and Adnan Soleman Ali.

On the occasion of the opening, the launch of a Glassbooks publication dedicated to Tom Magnier’s work, featuring texts by Ugo Ballara, Demba Diallo, and Fanny Lallart.

Editorial coordination: Clémence Agnez
Editorial design: Alisson Haguenier.

This exhibition is supported by the City of Paris Emerging Artists Grant, as well as the Forte grant from the Île-de-France Region.

Born in 1995 in Seine-Saint-Denis, where he lives and works, Tom Magnier develops his artistic practice alongside the various jobs he has held. Delivery driver, France Travail employment advisor, printer, dockworker, and now teacher, he is constantly looking for ways to free up time to create, build alliances, think, wander, infiltrate, and develop an artistic practice at work, through and with the people around him.

His practice seeks to make these two realities coexist, simultaneously and on an equal footing: to inhabit the city, develop forms of resilience, and create work collectively. These worlds intersect through collective stagings, which provide an opportunity to temporarily bring together self-selected groups.

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Cergy (Beaux-Arts de Cergy), Tom Magnier has presented his work in several group exhibitions, at Glassbox, Treize, La Tour Orion (Espace Nonono), Neuvitech, Thundercage, and Papillon93.

Since 2023, he has been teaching applied arts at Lycée Professionnel Arthur Rimbaud in La Courneuve.