This new magazine will shake up art in Paris

What if the most subversive medium in contemporary art wasn’t a gallery or an NFT… but a paper journal? At a time when everything is going digital, Let Them Eat chooses tangibility: a printed, artisanal, radically committed format. On June 8, 2025, this new independent medium will make its public debut at the Point Éphémère in Paris. And it could well become one of the most coveted artistic objects of the year.

Hugo Guénand Dalby, an interior designer who graduated from Penninghen in 2023, is behind the project. Far from content with his first exhibition successes, he set out in search of “unjustly invisible” artists. This almost militant approach gave rise to Let Them Eat: a journal conceived as much as an aesthetic manifesto as a medium for encounters.

Why a newspaper and not a gallery? Hugo answers straightforwardly: ” A newspaper can be tucked under your arm. You don’t need walls to exist .” This choice is not insignificant. It questions the centrality of traditional exhibition venues and offers an accessible, mobile, generous platform.

15 artists, 1 newspaper, 0 hierarchies

In this first issue, 15 young international artists share the stage: visual artists, musicians, designers, writers, photographers, video artists… They all benefit from a dedicated double-page spread, combining their work with intimate interviews by Emma Cambier, an author soon to be published by Gallimard.

But Let Them Eat goes even further. At the same time, the artists were brought together in trinomials to produce exquisite cadavers around the theme of “eating”. A playful homage to the Surrealists? Perhaps. But above all, a method of collective creation where no individuality dominates, where each unconscious weaves unexpected links with the others. The result: hybrid, poetic and disturbing works, in the image of what this journal aims to embody.

Ultra-clean manufacturing

Let Them Eat asserts its material roots. The journal (format A3 closed, A2 open) is printed in Alsace, by Imprimerie Ott, on Arena White Rough 90g offset paper by Fedrigoni, using a modified Komori color press. An editorial rarity, limited to 600 numbered and signed copies, sold at €25 in carefully selected locations.

Launch event at Point Éphémère

On June 8, the eve of Pentecost, Let Them Eat comes to life with an immersive event at Point Éphémère. Program:
🎤 Live performances by Vénus d’Argent, Tohu-Bohu, Non Paying Buyers
📽️ Performance byEmma Cambier
🖼️ Newspaper sale
🎧 DJ-sets, discussions, meetings…

A unique moment, designed to trigger conversations and possibilities.

A micro-publication with a broad vision

What impresses? The high standards. Hugo worked without outside funding. The team was built on affinities: Philippine Garsuault contributed to the artistic direction, relatives provided logistical support, and artists met “by chance or fate”, such as Gabrielle Venguer, Hiba Baddou and Luigi Pensa.

And the name? “Young artists are claiming their share of the pie – so, let them eat!A declaration of war on closed art circuits.

What next?

Eventually, Let Them Eat aims to become a living platform. A space for exchange, experimentation and collective projects. A “stage without a stage” where young artists speak out, without filter or compromise.

To be followed very closely. Or better still: to read, to experience, to collect.

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