Petrit Halilaj draws his inspiration from his childhood, a period marked by the political and cultural tensions that were felt in his homeland of Kosovo during the 1990s. He produces installations, based mostly on his personal memories and dreams.

For Petrit Halilaj the source of the medium plays an important role in the meaning of his artworks. He makes use of materials from Kosovo, such as earth or the rubble from his house, destroyed during the war. He sometimes recreates lost or destroyed objects, such as his mother's jewellery, which she had buried in their garden for safekeeping, or the stuffed animals from the Pristina Museum of Natural History, also destroyed during the war. His work has been exhibited in institutions like the Kunstraum, Innsbrück (2011); the WIELS Contemporary Art Center in Brussels (2013); the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2015); the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan (2015), and the New Museum of New York (2017).

François Quintin studied art history at the École du Louvre and at the university, as well as curatorial training at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In 1994, he became one of the curators of the Fondation Cartier, a position he held until 2000. The following year, he was appointed director of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, which he left in 2007 to take over as director of the Xippas Gallery. In 2011, he launched the Lafayette Anticipations project, Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette with Guillaume Houzé, director of image for the Galeries Lafayette group. After several years at the head of the prefiguration and conceptualization of the Foundation's project, largely based on production assistance, he is the artistic director of the venue which opens its doors in 2016. In 2019, he joins the Direction générale de la création artistique (DGCA) at the Ministry of Culture.