for its september exhibition, quand les fleurs nous sauvent presents " kott & hana ", a duo-show of two artists - zuae and kanaria  - one korean, the other japanese, two poetic universes in which the flower and the human coexist.

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behind these two enigmatic terms, kott in Korean and hana in japanese, hides the same meaning, the flower. despite this common translation, each offers a very personal interpretation of the flower - carrier of the thoughts of the characters in zuae , and emblem of the bubbling life of kanaria .

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zuae's black marker work features characters in full introspection. the motif of the flower, recently hatched in its creation, is today carrying meaning. flowers sprout in the thoughts of his hesitant characters, or take on human traits to question the value of social interactions. illustrating the concepts of loneliness and living together, zuae uses the flower to personify the tensions that coexist in everyone, between self-acceptance and group pressure.

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putting plants, animals and humans on an equal footing, kanaria paints the vision of a utopian world where the three kingdoms vibrate in unison. on her canvases she combines a multitude of motifs which, when put together, shape a story, a sort of personal cosmogony. his technique participates in this feeling of transcribing the memory. kanaria conceives her canvases as frescoes which she proceeds to develop in scattered fragments - fragments that she gradually brings together without trying to erase the connections, in a constant game between finished and unfinished where her whites break with its so dear flesh color.

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a sign of resilience, hope and life with characters in deep inner reflection at zuae , the flower is, for kanaria , the link, linking it with humans and animals. for her, the roots of all life are intertwined because they are anchored in the same land: “the whole world is one” as she puts it so well. in contrast, in zuae's visions, the similarity between beings is only surface - admittedly they have a common nature, but are differentiated by their experiences, environments, ideas, and above all thoughts.

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wishing to promote emerging foreign artists, the gallery offers, on the occasion of this duo-show, to compare two asian artists whose unique graphic universes simultaneously question their relationship to the world - a sharp vision for one and almost edenic for the other.