Zine Andrieu grew up in a succession of working-class neighbourhoods in France. A series of serendipitous encounters and ruptures led him into a world he knew nothing about: contemporary art. And so, in 2017, he moved to Bordeaux to enrol at the Beaux-Arts, from which he graduated with a DNSEP in 2022. Since then, his work has explored cultural clashes and the tensions between popular heritage and artistic legitimacy. It soon occurred to him that representing the realities of working-class neighbourhoods within a field that is often codified and elitist could be both a lever for emancipation and a path strewn with pitfalls, so strongly latent is the risk of compromising oneself. He therefore chose to produce hybrid forms – installations, performances, videos and sound pieces – that speak of intimate and collective experiences, aspirations and fragments of everyday life. By constantly questioning his own modesty and that of his community, he manages to avoid exposing his bare words to an often distant outside gaze. His deeply layered works function like spaces to be deciphered, in which multiple languages coexist: references to manga, video games, social networks, religion, but also to the myths, stories and beliefs that circulate in the neighbourhoods. Cinema, in all its formal diversity, has become a focal point for his work: it embodies both narrative power and a shared imaginary space, capable of speaking to a wide audience without denying the complexity of the stories. Moving closer to the cinema was an essential step in his effort to combine popular appeal with artistic rigour.