Name: Des futures ruines, pousse la vie - From the ruins of the future, life springs forth
Start: 2026-06-27T11:00:00
End: 2026-08-08T20:00:00
Location: Supalife Kiosk

Screen prints by Studio Miammmiam

Julie Chovin, better known by her pseudonym Miammmiam, has been exhibiting her hand-made screen prints at the Supalife Kiosk for 10 years now. She uses stencils painted with a brush on tracing paper as templates; these are exposed onto the screen and then screen-printed onto the paper using the appropriate ink.

Her works feature exclusively animals, which often interact with one another in a playful manner. They are loving, childlike visual worlds, bathed in bright, vibrant colors. Alongside these cuddly, peaceful, and harmonious scenes, there is also a series of images in which animals are anthropomorphized—or rather, humans are animalized. These totem animals move just like us, going about their ordinary lives in urban spaces: strolling through a weekly market or sitting on the banks of the Spree and celebrating.

However, there are also frequent motifs that allude to one of the world’s greatest global problems, such as the depiction of an orphaned, sad polar bear in the midst of a humid tropical rainforest. And she does not choose an accusatory tone to express criticism of humanity’s transgressions against nature and the environment. What sets her work apart is, above all, a compassionate gesture of empathizing with the animals’ feelings.

This is also the case with her latest screen prints, which Julie Chovin is showing in the current exhibition. The subject is always the same—the facade of a prefabricated apartment building. In front of it, different animals wander lonely past this deserted settlement. We’ve long since grown accustomed to foxes, but large big cats with their cubs and a leopard family in a residential area remain far removed from our reality. But if we take the exhibition title literally and, upon closer inspection, notice the large sand dunes in the image of the leopard family or the flooded street in the image of the big cat, we might also think that, as global warming progresses, we’ll find ourselves in a near-future, overgrown urban landscape.

Yet Julie does not choose dystopia as the endpoint for a human-made story of hubris. Optimism endures as she hopefully restores wild nature to its rightful place at the beginning after the end of a ruined world.