La Méditerranée is a Paris-based, exhibition-oriented research group working on exhibition as a medium itself. That is, an entity shaped by its own environment.

After spending a month in Syktyvkar as part of the 1rst Komi Biennale initiated by the National Gallery along with the Pushkin Museum, La Méditerranée presented a selection of artworks made by four artists in residence in the Autonomous Republic of Komi, at the premises of Lazy Mike’s gallery in Moscow. Those artists are Apollinaria Broche, Victoria Kosheleva, Mateo Revillo and Edgar Sarin.

Beyond the artworks of the artists that were on display, the exhibition endured improvisation. In the means of describing the drift of La Méditerranée, one could put forth an analogy with a Jazz formation. Each artist has a lonesome studio practice — alike a sax player working on its scales — as he also finds himself in a complementary space — namely the scene, to keep up with the musician’s analogy —, delivered to improvisation.