Candice & Raphaël, France
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Candice & Raphaël is a duo formed in 2020 by Candice Chemel (b. 1997, Paris) and Raphaël-Bachir Osman (b. 1992, Creil), living and working in Mulhouse and Paris.
Both graduates of the HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin), their collaborative project was initiated through discussions, tastings, and cooking. Over shared meals and taste memories (souvenirs de bouche), they created connections between their practices of painting, writing, performance, and gastronomy. Playing with words and dishes (mots et mets), they activate flavors and colors from dining to painting. Candice & Raphaël create spaces for conviviality through installation-performances which facilitate gathering and simple moments of sharing. It is a spectacle of the ordinary. |
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The duo held their first exhibition in June 2023, The Little Shoe, at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. The show combined Candice’s texts, Raphaël-Bachir’s paintings, and a buffet-installation. It replayed the codes of exhibition openings, blurring the line between paint and sauce, and inviting the public to perform by wiping clean—with a piece of bread—numerous colored, sauced plates cooked by the duo and arranged along a long table.
The performance was restaged in July 2023 at the public garden Elizabeth Street Garden, Manhattan, and later in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. In June 2024, the duo was invited for a residency at Villa Glovettes, Villard-de-Lans, where they presented two culinary installations, Le Petit Sabot (The Little Clog) and Pierre et la Couve (Stone and the Incubator), relying exclusively on products from the Vercors region. In July 2024, the duo was invited for a residency at Le Port des Créateurs, Toulon, again producing events which relied exclusively on products from the region. In September, they were invited to Gr_und, Berlin, to participate in an exhibition curated by Mathias Gramoso, where they revisited the notion of the artists' dinner. This installation-performance was then filmed and broadcast within the exhibition space.
Candice Chemel
Born in 1997, Candice Chemel graduated in 2020 from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) in the Design Process section, and in 2022 she earned a Master's degree in Gastronomy, specializing in Creativity, Education, and Ecology, from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. This program connected these three areas from both a creative and scientific perspective. There, she took courses on the philosophy of aesthetics centered on the haptic tasting of wine, and continued her sommelier training in France, focusing on intuitive and geo-sensory tasting. In 2023, she collaborated with the Heritage Radio Network in New York and underwent an apprenticeship on Georgian wines. She also presented her first duo-show with Raphaël-Bachir Osman at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. She is regularly invited to residencies as a chef, blending natural wine and fine cuisine.
Raphaël-Bachir Osman
Born in 1992 to a French mother and a Syrian father, Raphaël-Bachir Osman graduated from HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin) in 2017 with jury honors. In 2016, he also studied at the Kunsthochschule Weissenssee Berlin under Frederike Feldman. He co-directed the Erratum gallery in Berlin from 2017 to 2021. His work is held in numerous collections in Paris, Berlin, London, and New York. He has participated in many exhibitions across Europe, notably at the Kunstraum Riehen in Basel, Switzerland, Berlin, and Paris. In 2020, he was nominated for the Révélations Emerige award and received the research and creation grant from the Création en Cours program of Ateliers Médicis. Recently, he participated in the Artpress Biennial (with a monographic exhibition at the Musée Fabre and a group exhibition at M.O.C.O Panacée in Montpellier). In 2023, he was awarded the Atelier Mondial grant (Basel) for a six-month creative residency at Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York. He is represented in Paris by Galerie DS, founded by Thomas Havet.
Raphaël-Bachir Osman's practice is plural, ranging from painting to installation. Alone or in collaboration, he questions every stage of an artwork's life and the imperative notion of originality, from creation to mounting and exhibition. Attentive to the formal, symbolic, or kitsch and outdated oddities of everyday life, he extracts, projects, and reinvests motifs within the reflective spaces of the white cube or the canvas. By mixing registers and tones as much as materials and effects, Raphaël-Bachir Osman employs humor at the borders of the absurd and the ordinary.
The performance was restaged in July 2023 at the public garden Elizabeth Street Garden, Manhattan, and later in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. In June 2024, the duo was invited for a residency at Villa Glovettes, Villard-de-Lans, where they presented two culinary installations, Le Petit Sabot (The Little Clog) and Pierre et la Couve (Stone and the Incubator), relying exclusively on products from the Vercors region. In July 2024, the duo was invited for a residency at Le Port des Créateurs, Toulon, again producing events which relied exclusively on products from the region. In September, they were invited to Gr_und, Berlin, to participate in an exhibition curated by Mathias Gramoso, where they revisited the notion of the artists' dinner. This installation-performance was then filmed and broadcast within the exhibition space.
Candice Chemel
Born in 1997, Candice Chemel graduated in 2020 from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) in the Design Process section, and in 2022 she earned a Master's degree in Gastronomy, specializing in Creativity, Education, and Ecology, from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. This program connected these three areas from both a creative and scientific perspective. There, she took courses on the philosophy of aesthetics centered on the haptic tasting of wine, and continued her sommelier training in France, focusing on intuitive and geo-sensory tasting. In 2023, she collaborated with the Heritage Radio Network in New York and underwent an apprenticeship on Georgian wines. She also presented her first duo-show with Raphaël-Bachir Osman at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. She is regularly invited to residencies as a chef, blending natural wine and fine cuisine.
Raphaël-Bachir Osman
Born in 1992 to a French mother and a Syrian father, Raphaël-Bachir Osman graduated from HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin) in 2017 with jury honors. In 2016, he also studied at the Kunsthochschule Weissenssee Berlin under Frederike Feldman. He co-directed the Erratum gallery in Berlin from 2017 to 2021. His work is held in numerous collections in Paris, Berlin, London, and New York. He has participated in many exhibitions across Europe, notably at the Kunstraum Riehen in Basel, Switzerland, Berlin, and Paris. In 2020, he was nominated for the Révélations Emerige award and received the research and creation grant from the Création en Cours program of Ateliers Médicis. Recently, he participated in the Artpress Biennial (with a monographic exhibition at the Musée Fabre and a group exhibition at M.O.C.O Panacée in Montpellier). In 2023, he was awarded the Atelier Mondial grant (Basel) for a six-month creative residency at Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York. He is represented in Paris by Galerie DS, founded by Thomas Havet.
Raphaël-Bachir Osman's practice is plural, ranging from painting to installation. Alone or in collaboration, he questions every stage of an artwork's life and the imperative notion of originality, from creation to mounting and exhibition. Attentive to the formal, symbolic, or kitsch and outdated oddities of everyday life, he extracts, projects, and reinvests motifs within the reflective spaces of the white cube or the canvas. By mixing registers and tones as much as materials and effects, Raphaël-Bachir Osman employs humor at the borders of the absurd and the ordinary.
