Escape Games is an invitation to escape, a symbolic escape from the realities of our time, marked by conflict and uncertainty. In a world in search of meaning, Seth invites us to dream, to liberate ourselves and to rediscover hope. His characters, guides from a parallel universe, take us on a journey where resilience, play and imagination combine to offer a poetic escape.
Escape Games becomes a manifesto of freedom, a journey of the imagination in search of beauty, lightness and a brighter future. Through this exhibition, Seth vividly reminds us that art is a powerful weapon in the face of the world’s torments, a source of inspiration for dreaming together of a future filled with hope and light.

Galerie Itinerrance
29 November 2024 to 15 March 2025
Paris, France

Petit Palais
Organized by Galerie Itinerrance
12 June 2024 to 19 January 2025
Paris, France

After its debut at the Musée en Herbe in Paris, “Seth se la Joue” returns for a second edition at Amsterdam’s STRAAT Museum.
Through dreamlike installations, paintings and sculptures, Seth explores the many facets of play and childhood from the four corners of the globe.
From Madagascar to Indonesia, from Haiti to Ukraine and China, his encounters inspire a journey where the imaginary takes over from the real. In a reinvented Paris, between nostalgia and contemporary questioning, Seth invites everyone to rediscover their inner child.
Wordplay, metamorphosed portraits and rainbow tunnels extend this exploration, opening up a space of freedom, dreams and poetry for all ages.

STRAAT Museum
4 October 2024 to 2 March 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jupiter Museum of Art
Curated by Danysz Gallery
3 April to 7 July 2024
Shenzen, China

With M 50 Art Center
July 2023
Chengdu, China

This exhibition invites us to explore the many aspects and possibilities of play throughout the world, through the prism of toys and childhood. In giving imagination power over reality, Seth opens the door to a unique and personal form of freedom.

Through dreamlike installations featuring his encounters with children in Madagascar, Indonesia, Haiti, Ukraine and China, he evokes his travels around the world.

Strolling down Rue Marmaille, scattered with mischievous children, Seth reveals his Paris, where nostalgia meets our contemporary issues. We discover masked sculptures from the four corners of the globe, paintings that dialogue with childhood board games. We pass through a rainbow tunnel, a whirlwind of creativity that opens the door to fantasy and wonder.

Puns come to life, and visitors’ portraits magically merge with Seth’s works.

Musée en Herbe
7 June – 31 December 2023
Paris, France

For the past twenty years, the world has become my playground. My children play with the walls, the architecture, or the culture of the places where I paint them.

I am constantly discovering new territories that inspire me to create new works. By wanting to speak to the people who live where I leave my mark, I force myself to understand and analyse the places I visit. By adapting myself to the walls before painting them, I want to open doors to which each of us has the key.  

The freedom that the canvas gives me allows me to constantly explore new ways of evoking the imagination of childhood. With the vortexes of colour into which I immerse my characters, I want to represent the richness of an inner universe that floods the space. They represent the passage to a new world, the entrance to the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland, fly the coop.
-SETH

M 50 Art Center
July 2022
Shanghai, China

Solo exhibition

Galerie Very Yes
Saint-Pierre, Reunion Islands
24 August – 2 Octobre 2021

La Chapelle Saint Sauveur
Rue Saint-Sauveur
35400 Saint-Malo
11 July – 1 November 2020
With Teenage Kicks

It is in the prestigious setting of the Saint-Sauver Chapel, in the heart of Saint-Malo Intra-muros where one can visit Seth’s first exhibition in Brittany, France, curated by Teenage Kicks. Paintings, photos, travel books and installations immerse us into the heart of his artistic journey: from the old alleys of Shanghai to the beaches of Madagascar, each alcove of the chapel gives an account of a journey, a project, an experience. Open for all, this exhibition of poetry and the unfamiliar speaks to each child at heart.

Galerie Itinerrance
24 Boulevard du Général d’Armée Jean Simon
75013 Paris, France
February 6 – April 11 2020

Over the course of his many trips painting walls, Seth has witnessed the incredible resilience of children everywhere. Whether in a school located in war-torn Ukraine, or in a favela beset by cartel violence, children invent imaginary worlds as a way to escape. Despite being a life learning process, play often remains the easiest way to flee from the relentless reality that surrounds them.

For this exhibition, Seth reinterprets some of his creations painted across the world, and speaks to the child inside us all. As he likes to say, his paintings are “doors that open up to imaginary worlds.” They encourage us, for a moment, to look inwards to see the extent of our inner wealth.

We find Seth’s recurring themes, his love of books, toys as an escape tool, or the nostalgia of a disappearing world. The vortex often remains present, which can be understood by each of us as we please: the passage to another dimension, the reflection of the imagination or a representation of the different levels of consciousness. It embodies the rich inner universe that floods space, the door to a new world, like the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland.