Ilia Zdanevich, known as ILIAZD, was a dynamic and multifaceted figure of the 20th century, recognised as a poet, writer, playwright, critic, theorist, typographer, publisher, designer, researcher and performer. His artistic and literary career was marked by an eclectic blend of interests and phases.
Zdanevich was an idealistic, non-commercial publisher who fought to promote his artistic vision and to bring attention to unknown or forgotten authors and artists, such as Pirosmanashvili and Adrien de Monluc. He collaborated with some of the most important painters and sculptors of the 20th century, including Picasso, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Léopold Survage, Michel Guino and Raoul Hausmann.
He experimented extensively with typography, personally designing the layout of all his publications.
After his death in 1975, his work gained greater recognition through posthumous exhibitions in major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1987), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1976), the Centre Pompidou (1978), the National Library in Florence (1991), the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (2015), and the Georgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2024).
His books are now considered among the most precious art books, object-works that embody a cosmic and universal toutiste vision of artistic expression.

Chloé Vanderstraeten (1996) lives and works in Paris.
She graduated in 2021 from the Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors from the jury, as well as from the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.
Her work, which focuses on drawing and paper, has been exhibited at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation in Arles, FRAC Picardie, and CRAC Alsace, among others. In 2023, she was awarded a residency at the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation in the United States, where she studied the textile work of Anni Albers. In 2024, she received the Connexion ADAGP grant for an exhibition in Bremen, Germany, centered around her artist’s book Cartographies, published by Éditions Adverses (2023).
In 2025, she is awarded the Emergence grant by ADIAF.
She is in residence at Artagon, in Pantin, until 2026.