A curation by Rose Boutboul, Independent Curator at - In this selection, matter, color, and gesture combine to probe what animates—beyond form, beyond the visible. Each work explores a tension: between movement and stillness, strength and fragility, abstraction and symbol. Alexander Lufer's paintings pave the way: mental architectures where geometry becomes emotion, where form reclaims power over meaning. With Ali Sedri, memory takes over—a circular flow of energy, like the lingering trace of lived moments. Guy Muls and Maria Heinrich, for their part, translate interiority into precise gestures, in a serene dialogue between color and thought. In contrast to these paintings, the sculptures of Hector Bouchet and Willi Lemke embody the very substance of life: bronze, metal, stone—bearers of a silent vitality. For Nastazia Dariva, love becomes vibration, a symbol of a universal bond. Carlos Vasconcellos contrasts it with tumult, a seething energy, while Qais Al Sindy reminds us that all vitality also contains its own struggle. "The living is sovereign" thus brings together artists who translate, each in their own way, this fundamental pulse: the heartbeat of the world, sometimes fragile, sometimes incandescent