Artists from Paris and the Netherlands evoke a cloud of gentle values.

Thirteen artists who share a similar sensitivity participate in Fine Fleur. The selected artworks express a cloud of gentle values. Such as porosity and terms like elusive, futile, fragile, defenceless, modest, doubt and not knowing. Values that are currently often suppressed or are dismissed as unimportant. The works of art allow one to experience how the tenuous and small, in all its insignificance, can be meaningful and seductive.

The artworks are ambiguous and subtle. Some artists deliberately use sober or organic material. The use of these 'inferior' materials lends value to something that appears to be of zero value. The insignificant appears to have a right to exist. In this way, what usually falls outside the field of interest, the margin or the periphery, takes centre stage.

The artworks are bursting with exquisite details. Raphaël Emine's ceramic 'altars' turn blue due to blue-green algae (cyanobacteria), or duckweed is floating within them, Perrine Lievens writes a letter using dragonfly wings, Emmanuelle Castellan shapes a figure by means of incisions in the canvas, Astrid Nobel paints with seawater, cockle and whalebone pigment, Dieuwke Spaans conjures up the universe with crystal glaze, Adélaïde Feriot colours bamboo velvet with squid ink to create an aurora-like vision, Takeshi Yasura drips red-coloured plant extract over a silk thread onto a marble vase.

The artworks may look fragile, but they do have power. Soft power! In the face of hardening and polarisation, Fine Fleur serves up tenderness as an antidote. Incidentally, all Parisian artists are showing their work in the Netherlands for the first time, whereas they are already making a name for themselves in their own country.