What's Happening

The three musicians - Wajdi Riahi (piano), Basile Rahola (double bass) and Pierre Hurty (drums) - are inseparable, united by a strong friendship and several musical projects. Wajdi's trio was formed in Brussels in 2020, and the ties that bind these three young musicians are reflected on stage in their solid, close-knit dynamic.

Following a proposal from the Spanish label Fresh Sounds Records, Wajdi decided to record a first repertoire for his trio. Mhamdeya. The album, released in 2022, is rich and heterogeneous: each track recounts a part of Wajdi's life. The honesty with which the pianist has transcribed his story, through the rhythms, melodies and harmonies, also shines through in his playing and interactions.

Mhamdeya is the name of the Tunisian town where Wajdi grew up. He left at the age of 20 to settle in Brussels. Today, his home town is a strange mixture of pleasure and nostalgia, a sensation that Wajdi is trying to convey in his composition 'Mhamdeya'. Perhaps it's nostalgia for the sound of the radio his mother played every morning, the smell of the coffee she brewed, or his first contact with the piano when he was just 6? But his emotions go beyond nostalgia: "When I play with Basile and Pierre, I don't just want to share music. I want them to come into my life. That's why I invited them to my home, my Mhamdeya". The Tunisian city is a source of nourishment for Wajdi's music, and it has become even more so with Pierre and Basile, because they too have their own 'Mhamdeyas'.

Elisheva Revah 

Born in 1991, lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Born and raised in the Judah Mountains of Israel, Elisheva grew up surrounded by nature, art, and spirituality. Her parents, both artists, chose an unusual lifestyle going back to a slower way of living, practicing art and spiritual Judaism. Her work is influenced by ancient art, using symbols and myths from different cultures to explore the processes of womanhood and the perceptions of femininity.

Elisheva’s performative work navigates into a lost collective memory of ritual, worship, and transcendental practices, drawn from ancient cultures such as the Berber Moroccan trans or the Sufi dervish whirling.

Trained as a professional dancer, her creative research and artistic process strive to be an embodiment of the body, channeling its power, and remodeling its perception.

"We only see what we look at. Merleau-Ponty

The new series is about the skin of a sovereign world, of which Ramon Enrich is the legitimate son of these harsh and generous Catalan lands. Settled in the heart of a city where leather has been produced for hundreds of years, RE has developed an art that reflects a rich history of a simple past... The countryside, made up of solar expanses, is a field of inexhaustible resources for the painter who perceives an original metaphysics in it.

The new series created for Chambre avec vue plays with frames to let the subjects float, which are metaphysical objects that bring us back to the skin of the sensitive world.

The free canvases are residues of memories linked to the olive harvest, to the labour of picking... The rough weaving is made to resist the use of time, wind, rain, sun and finally to that of the painter who comes to inscribe the motifs of his pictorial syntax. They are similar to hangings on which the constituent elements of the landscape: trees, houses, paths, compose a series of signs that sometimes border on abstraction in order to let dreams of the landscape emerge.

The relationship between background and form is essential in RE's approach. By applying layer after layer to create a palimpsest surface, he inscribes a world of signs and colours with a sensitive elegance with a firm and assured line.

Emptiness and fullness dialogue with the wind of the painter's thought... In the absence of human or even animal presence, a sovereign calm reigns. His scenographies are scenes that await the intimate projections of the viewers.

Surveying the abandoned sites of a rural and industrial past, RE collects objects of all kinds that are elements that carry meaning and that he uses to create small sculptures of all materials that complete his pictorial scenario in exclamation marks!

text by Pierre Jaccaud