Jonathan “radbwa faroush” Mayers is a Louisiana Creole artist, writer, and Independant curator from Baton Rouge, LA. He paints local landscapes populated with mythological creatures, adorning his work with natural materials from the region. As a heritage language activist, he writes accompanying microstories as well as poems in Kouri-Vini, the endangered Creole language of Louisiana. Mayers, Baton Rouge Poet Laureate 2021-2023, is currently a Doctoral Fellow of Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is represented by Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.
Born in 1990 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Olivain Porry is an artist and holds a SACRe PhD from the EnsadLab laboratory at the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (Université PSL). Trained at the Beaux-Arts de Nantes, he lives and works in Paris, where he is represented by Avant-Galerie Vossen. His work explores, through plastic and cybernetic forms, the sociotechnical issues of contemporary technologies. His doctoral research, “Communities of Machines”, proposes an approach to creation based on negotiation between artists and technical devices. In 2025, he co-founded Les Éditions du Respirateur, an experimental editorial structure dedicated to conceptual forms of publication.