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PHOTOGRAPHING THE FUTURE
Imagine this:
The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft has been launched onboard Ariane 5 towards Jupiter and its icy moons. / The stuff that's on our plates seems more and more to have been created in laboratories, a mixture of cellular meat and novel future foods (NFF). / The world trembles at the appearance of the artificial AI monster ChatGPT, a real warning shot that shows the awesome power of the machines to come. And yet The Terminator, that Hollywood saga, prepared us for this a long, long time ago!
Uchronie, an exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Hunting and Nature), is dedicated to the work of the photographer and artist Vincent Fournier. It is an exhibition about an unsettling time.
Telling facts as they might have happened, uchronie is the name given to a fictional reconstruction of history that might have been different from what we know. With this title, the exhibition is seen as so many disturbing parallel histories. What if? -
From his Space Utopia series, capturing astronauts in their secret training grounds, to his ground-breaking 3D printed Flesh Flowers, Fournier's imagination knows no bounds. His artistic vision transcends scientific research and resonates with viewers on a profound level. Beyond the scientific research and perspectives that are an integral part of Vincent Fournier's work, it is his dreamlike, uncanny stories and the cinematic, poetic aesthetic of his images that have captivated us from the start. Recognising his unique work, the Museum invited Fournier to exhibit in its permanent collections. His 'augmented' animals, displayed alongside traditional taxidermy, create a wonderful juxtaposition. The observant viewers are drawn into a captivating game of spotting the details that transform the animals into enhanced future beings.
On the top floor, in the Forest Room, the animals from the fable Auctus animalis wait to ascend to the heavens and be transformed into stars. The Nostalgic Panther, the impressive feathered Mirage Elephant and the Radio Bird are subjects of the artist's imagination as well as figures from European or South American mythology, once again mixing historical references and time frames.
The Flora Incognita series fills the entire room dedicated to the great Charles Darwin. Situated between Brendel's papier-mâché flower models from 1859 and the digital botanical sheets from 2009 by the pioneer Miguel Chevalier, Vincent Fournier's flowers have a strange but exquisite beauty: with their three stems, their enormously elongated or curled petals, they are seductive banners of speculative biology. There, one can actually see the progress, even the advances, of the giant of digital technology over a period of fifteen years.
In this way, the Uchronie exhibition tells an alternative version of history about our relationship with nature and technology. What if life on Earth had evolved differently? What if animals were gifted with poetry? And what if we had explored Mars while staying on Earth?
Inspired by the most representative utopias of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as the space adventure or the reinvention of the living, Vincent Fournier reveals what he calls "future bursts" in the past or present, and invents stories that are at once fantastical and credible.
Vincent Fournier belongs to a generation that grew up with early science fiction and its current incarnation, both of which promise a future set in other worlds. Inspired by scientific and technological innovations, he realises his childhood dreams using sophisticated digital techniques, which he applies to both paintings and sculptures. He deliberately seeks out the blurriness, the wobble and the strange beauty of the space in-between.
Two major themes run through the exhibition like beacons: space and the extension of nature. Between dream and reality, the Space Utopia series (2007-2023) questions the habitability of extraterrestrial landscapes. Here, without the use of photomontage or filters, the photographs were taken in Iceland, where the relief and environment are so similar to those of the Moon or Mars that they are one and the same image. As the artist recalls, "my fascination with space comes from the films, television series and science fiction novels that have been mixed and superimposed in my memory, like an unlikely meeting between Jacques Tati and Jules Verne on the space station in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, A Space Odyssey".
The museology of the exhibition space evokes this essential aspect of science fiction, where times collide and merge. The extraordinary bestiary, the subject of the two series Post Natural History (2012-2023) and Auctus Animalis, highlights the metamorphoses of the living and the evolution of species. There are no monsters, chimeras or dangerous creatures here, created by a science gone mad, because Vincent Fournier never abandons poetry or beauty. It is precisely this primordial quality that will seize the viewer and lead him or her along a line of some sixty works, photographs, sculptures, videos, mosaics, jewellery and 3D prints, alongside Vincent Fournier in tales and journeys that lie beyond the real.
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'Uchronie'
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature | Vincent Fournier 11 April - 17 September 2023 -
UCHRONIE
Definition: // a noun devised from the Greek ou = not and chronos = time
A story based on a rewriting of history that makes it possible to imagine a world in which a past event has had a different outcome.
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Space Utopia
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This series, which started in 2007, tells the story of the past and future of space exploration, from the memories of the legendary Apollo program, which back in 1969 enabled man to step on the moon for the first time, to the Space Launch System Mega Moon Rocket developed by NASA for its human missions to Mars. These photographs combine a documentary and historical approach to space adventure with settings inspired by movies and the artist’s childhood memories.Spectacular as they are for their narrative and pictorial content, the Space Utopia photographs were produced without photomontage or filters. Their setting here is the landscape of Iceland, which played an important role in the history of space exploration. Back in the 1960s, the Iceland Moon Mars Simulation Expedition used sites that had been chosen for their resemblance to and similar characteristics shared with the Moon. They were used to train the Apollo mission astronauts. Today, these sites – sometimes perfect landscapes - are crowded by people who will take part in the next human journeys to the Moon and Mars.
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VINCENT FOURNIER: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
Throughout his work, despite the variety of the subjects that he depicts or brings together, Vincent Fournier makes a lasting impression of trying to remodel history. He constantly presents subjects that open windows to other possibilities. The tipping points – choices that haven’t been made, routes that haven’t been followed – have taken flight. The denials take part in the feeling of nostalgia that sometimes arises here. And yet these moments have been real.
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His method clearly seems to be associated with science fiction. Because this is a conjectural, fictional, rational system that invents myths, be it in literature, graphic art or on the screen, it leads to the emergence of a realistic universe. And thus, from our ordinary daily existence, it separates elements that it makes evolve in original conditions or confronts with unpredicted situations. Its plan, therefore, is to watch them metamorphose, from an original angle, and by so doing strive to produce more and more meanings.It was probably in the second half of the 20th century that science fiction was at its most intensive in dissecting the daily routine, with the aim of revealing both its absurdity and its grandeur. Hardly misshapen, even if slightly prophetic, it was a reflection of society, its anxieties and its hopes. It comes as no surprise that Vincent Fournier’s work exalts this period, and by diverting the culminant moments of the conquest of space or the hopes of a remodelled nature, it invites them in.But rather than focus on the coming and going between times, what he favours is the interconnections, the chronological tensions that were already present in other pictures he made, in his Brasilia series (a city presented as out of time) or the ruins of monuments dedicated to progress. These latter works are emblematic of subjectmatter that presents the objectification of a future idea. And so, the artist inserts so many footbridges between an imaginary scene that seems to shrink to nothing at the present time, and a reality that constantly becomes more and more complex, thus creating ever more contrivances and delusions.Science fiction sometimes goes so far as to contaminate reality and express itself in our daily world by exporting its myths as a matter of procedure. One of the most potent of these is that in Le Grandiose Avenir, a French sci-fi anthology, which always appears here implicitly, the mythical Tomorrow’s World that was sold to us by politicians and manufacturers and that we still ought to be living today.That is not the case, and yet we are still being promised a new Golden Age today: thanks to artificial intelligence, the metaverse, or the new technologies allegedly at the service of a planet we know to be bloodless. The platitudes about its advent are once again becoming a leading frame of reference, an exclusive vision of the world, whose guiding principle, as ever, is the headlong rush through technology and unrestrained consumption. Nonetheless, Vincent Fournier is warning us. The ruins and hybrids he directs our gaze towards are the counterpart of these promises. Even if they seem to be the debris of our times, they are also examples and ought to act as warnings.“The world is as we know it now to be, and always has been: everyone forgets that it could be, or ever was, other than the way it is now” wrote American author John Crowley. Through his uchronias, which evoke different presents, but also possible futures, Vincent Fournier comes to remind us of our power to decide: our future will be nothing but what we will make of it.
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The Immortal Heart
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The rhythm of the regular heartbeats that throb inside every living being is a sign of the cycle of life that inevitably begins and comes to an end. The Immortal Heart, a precious object made of gold and lead covered with citrines whose size and weight are similar to those of a human heart, embodies our desire for immortality, in keeping with our endless, ridiculous dreams. It suggests a double echo, one to contemporary biomedicine, which is driving back the limits of life, the other to the philosopher’s stone, the alchemists’ source of immortality.This promise of eternity from the Great Work (the philosopher’s stone) enters into resonance with the hopes for eternal life borne by post-humanist thought in which the human body becomes a machine body made indestructible by scientific and technological progress. The Immortal Heart beats to the rhythm of a vital flow between past and future.Thank you to Agnès Dumas, Nicolas Wavrin, and Dominique Muller for their valuable participation. -
Flesh Flowers
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Inspired by the legend of the Tartar lamb, a mythic animal-plant that at the time was considered to be both animal and plant, Vincent Fournier’s Flesh Flowers are the fruit of his imagination and of the story that was devised for his Post Natural Museum series. Thanks to the tissue engineering skills highlighted in the Post Natural Museum, these flowers produce artificial, edible flesh. All that remains beneath our eyes are the skeletons of these flesh flowers. The Post Natural Museum, a fictional scientific institution created by Vincent Fournier, is a project of encyclopedic archives that came out of a space between memory and an invented future in which new species would have been modified the better to adapt to our environment and to respond to new human needs.
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Vincent Fournier, Borgesia [Aurora Eternae], 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Astreae [Paulisper Desiderare], 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Sideris [Melia Xpersica], 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Carmina [Seraphica Curiosis], 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Ancolia [Aquilegia Edulis], 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Araceae [Zantedeschia Carnes], 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Clepsydra [Obscura Imperialis], 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Vanitas [Colligere Diem], 2015
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Flora Incognita
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Presented as a cabinet of future curiosities, the Flora Incognita (unknown flowers) float like hybrid creatures on a neutral base – an historical reference to the specimens drowned in formaldehyde jars that can still be seen in natural science museums. Here, however, the plants are in perpetual movement, in continuous mutation as if what they wanted was to avoid any kind of classification, any inveigling of their essence. The beauty of these unknown flowers strengthens the trouble of their moving identity, reminding us that everything is just transformation. The specimens on show in the Salon Rouge were created and trained to sing opera. An audio work by Sébastien Lipszyc will remind the visitor of the strange feeling of the HAL computer’s tired singing of Daisy Bell at 2001: A Space Odyssey. Besides, Opera Cantus Flora pays homage to the hypnotic world of the Vermilion Sands seaside world imagined by J.G. Ballard in his short-story collection of the same name.Like specimens on display in natural history museums, the Floras Incognitas belong in a cabinet of future curiosities. They are the outcome of research by the Post Natural Museum into the creation of simultaneously organic and inorganic mutant flowers. These hybrid creatures are the subject of photogrammetric scanning reconstructed as photographs and videos. In a world in which everything seems to have already been inventoried and put in a hierarchy – in other words, a world achieved - the Unknown Flowers show the beauty of their twisting and in their endless movement a fictional, lyrical evolution in the transformation of the living being.
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Robotic Jellyfish Drone
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Here beneath our eyes is the skeleton of a Robotic Jellyfish Drone found in the Rhone valley in 2057. It is a hybrid, half biological and half robotical creature that was part of a squadron tasked with environmental surveillance. When the temperature reaches 30°C, the jellyfish drones auto-activate in order to lift water from the rivers and redistribute it through hydro-stress to agricultural areas.
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Vincent Fournier
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Post Natural History
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At the intersection of surrealism and technology, the Post Natural History bestiary imagines the possible evolution of the post-Darwin living world. These photographs reveal a collection of species on the way to emerging: a peacock with a silver, diamond-studded exoskeleton, a dragonfly with a fragile glass abdomen in which a luminescent captor is measuring air quality, a beetle with GPS integrated in its metal antenna. Engraved on a brass tablet, “scientific” explanations caption the pictures and heighten the likelihood contained in them. The strange familiarity of this poetic bestiary questions the ambivalence of our relationship with nature and technology.
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Vincent Fournier, Cloudy Travelling Dog [Canis nimbus transubstantiatio] Capacity of transubstantation – from dog to cloud- and of teletransportation, 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Carrion Crow [Corvus memoria eidetica] Bird of memories, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Weevil [Entimus jumpis] Highly-adaptable jumping insect, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Red Poppy [Ignis Ubinanae] Flower with fiery plasma, 2014
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Vincent Fournier, Sparrow [Passeridae Megapixelianae] Bird with high visual acuity, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, High-Speed Shark [Squalus moleculo] The ability to control its speed at the molecular level, 2019
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Vincent Fournier, Moon Jellyfish [Aurelia exiens] Adaptation to abyssal life for data transmission, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Pangolin [Uromanis supraclimatis] Climate change-tolerant mammal, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Ibis [Ibis temperatio] Drought- and frost-resistant bird,, 2014
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Vincent Fournier, Sweet Pea [Lathyrus gemmae] Actual flower jewellery, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Rhino Beetle [Oryctes transmissionis] Insect adapted to continuous tracking, 2013
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Vincent Fournier, Crocodile [Crocodylus hypersexualis] Reptile with new reproductive strategy, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Great Grey Owl [Strix predatoris] Predator-resistant feathers, 2013
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Vincent Fournier, Titanium Rhinoceros [Rhinocerotidae titanium] Rhinoceros with an augmented skeleton, 2019
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Vincent Fournier, Replicant Owl Butler [Asio replican major domus] Robotic owl to perform domestic tasks, 2018
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Vincent Fournier, Golden Porcupine [Hystricidae gemmae] Luxury pet with jewelry settings, 2018
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Vincent Fournier, Black Celestial Tortoise [Manouria praecognito] Divine Tortoise, 2019
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Vincent Fournier, Pythia Passarage [Sypheotides divinare] Bird with precognitive dreams, 2014
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Vincent Fournier, Monitor Lizard [Varanus imitabilis] Mimetic lizard, 2014
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Vincent Fournier, Peacock [Pavo exosceletus] Attractive gallinaceous bird with an almighty armor, 2014
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Vincent Fournier, Treehopper [Hemikyptha botuli] Pollutant-sensitive insect, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Vulture [Cathartidae Peek-a-boo] Passer-through-walls bird, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Cortinarius [Fungus aridus] Like-arid environment tolerant fungi, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Scorpion [Orbus Chirurgia] Scorpion used for semi automated surgery, 2014
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Vincent Fournier, Cat [Felis spiritae] Psychic medium for communications with the spirit world, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Ethereal Jellyfish [Fantauma cerebrum] Entity able to travel between dimensions, 2015
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Vincent Fournier, Rain Bird [Aucellus pluvia] Ability to provoke rainfall by disturbing the clouds’ static electricity, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, White Fennec [Zerdas hypnoticus] Ability to access and control mind, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Scorpio-Fish Drone [Scorpius Exocoetidae] Shoot and scoot soldier drone, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Orchis [Orchis banana] Edible petals, 2012
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Vincent Fournier, Brown-Cheeked Hornbill [Bycanistes attractivus], 2014
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'Post Natural History'
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Murmurs
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IN THE MURMURS BETWEEN TWO WORLDSAre these the skeletons of unlikely animals, the transfigured forms of plants, or the sounds of an aerodynamic, infinitely mysterious movement transformed into instantaneous sculptures? In an old-fashioned display cabinet at the end of a tiny room on the second floor of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, itself at the top of a very narrow staircase, are Vincent Fournier’s three motionless Murmurs. Two of these physical artifacts, of some metaphysical entity, solidified phantoms of metamorphoses forever invisible to the human eye, embody the skull of a mammal and the death mask of a bear that probably vanished a long time ago.
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"We are trying to escape from a capitalist, competitive, consumer-oriented world that exploits all human and non-human resources by treating them as if they were furniture or factory meat. But it is very hard." - Vincent Fournier
In a room adorned with dark flowery wallpaper from a past era, a white statue stands alongside peculiar plants and a green memento. The artist's Murmurs, represented by silent music, captivate visitors, inviting contemplation. This eclectic mix reflects the incongruities of humanity's connection to the Anthropocene, highlighted by tornadoes, droughts, and the looming climate disaster.
Welcome to a world of uncertainty where meaning emerges from the absence of familiar points of reference, the fusion of opposing elements, and the blending of incompatible objects. It is a world created by the fusion of parallel universes, resulting in a disoriented narrative. The Murmurs, enigmatic beings represented by white shadows, inhabit a space detached from any known reality. This space, lasting only moments, transforms the museum into a metaphorical box of metamorphoses, open to diverse interpretations by various audiences.
The exhibition room, adorned with images from Planet of the Apes and other symbolic artifacts, conveys the foreign and incomplete nature of our world amidst climate change and the threat of mass extinction. Within this space, remnants of mass hunting and catastrophic predation coexist with the artist's flora and fauna from parallel worlds. It inspires a different perception of hunting, one that respects nature and captures only sounds and images as poetic evidence. Could this room, suggesting a radical shift in attitude, serve as a foundation for reimagining living beings, symbolized by Vinciane Despret's octopuses, Alain Damasio's elusive Furtifs, the intangible Murmurs captured in recordings, and Vincent Fournier's enigmatic organic flowers?
We strive to escape a capitalist, consumer-driven world that exploits human and non-human resources. However, breaking free from this world is challenging, as it clings to us like our beloved yet detested smartphones. Paradoxically, despite its impending decay, this world remains solid. Exploring alternative perspectives within the Post Natural Museum, through the twists and forms of a Murmur, a Flora Incognita, or an Opera Cantus Flora, accelerates the dissolution of this old world while opening the door to countless new worlds. They make the impossible become possible.
The horizon appears cloudy and unpredictable. Uchronie, by transforming statements into questions, sheds light on the uncertain paths ahead, combining utopias and dystopias. Amidst multiple collapses, the true objective lies in anticipating and embracing change rather than merely saving the world. Cultivating the potential for a paradigm shift, imagining and constructing a future that goes beyond extraction-based exploitation for both the planet and humanity, becomes crucial.
Longing to return to a triumphant modern era is a dangerous fantasy. It is akin to recreating astronaut Dave Bowman's spacesuit from 2001: A Space Odyssey in an attempt to escape the Anthropocene. Repeating the metaphysical journey would fail to address the present and perpetuate the mistakes of the past. Instead, we should forge a new monolith, not transcendent but immanent, prioritizing knowledge and space exploration without colonization or exploitation. It is preferable to explore and experiment, even if it means venturing into the unknown, while fostering mutual respect with all agents of Gaia. We must seek alternatives and reimagine a heliocentric and cosmological existence that connects beings, things, and the natural world, as philosopher Emanuele Coccia suggests.
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Galerie des Papillons
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The tick room presents various rare examples of winged insects with extraordinary powers: a dragonfly that can detect the inorganic compounds present in the pure air, a carrier butterfly that is luminous or capable of carrying the perfume of the soul. On the border between the living and the artificial, these “neo-beings” show their capacity for continuous evolution to adapt to different environments. They have been collected thanks to the Post Natural History programme.
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Auctus Animalis
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ETYMOLOGYAuctus, Latin = increased, augmentedAnimalis, Latin = animal, from anima = air, breath, spirit, + suffix -alis.The history of Auctus Animalis island tells of the transformation of hybrid creatures into stars. This is an initiatory fable about a bestiary of chimera taken from between two worlds. Finding no place for themselves on Earth, the species from Auctus Animalis island are going to turn into stars so they can recover their equilibrium. Standing at the intersection of biology and surrealism, Vincent Fournier plunges us into a world poised between the real and the virtual that defies scientific realities and proposes a poetic question about the transformation of the living being. Images from Auctus Animalis, a rite-of-passage-style musical and photographic fable, winner of the 2022-2023 Swiss Life à 4 mains Prize, from an original idea by Vincent Fournier (photography) and Sébastien Gaxie (music).
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Vincent Fournier, Oiseau Radio (Argus Cymbalum) Capte les ondes sonores émises par la constellation Auctus animalis, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Baleine Fantôme (Balæna phantasma) Composée de particules d’énergie cosmique., 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Caméléon Cristal (Picus crystallo) Maîtrise le langage des pierres, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Cerf Céleste (Cervus cælestia) Guide de l’île Auctus animalis, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Chat Trou Noir (Felis cavum nigrum) Ouvre le portail de l’espace-temps, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Crocodile Gemmé (Crocodilus lapis) Gardien du temps, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Éléphant Mirage (Elephantus mirari) Créateur de mirages, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Hibou Brume (Otus nebula) Crée une brume hypnotique, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Morphologia Hortensia (Hydrangea fluidum) Plante modélisée par les forces invisibles de l’île Auctus animalis, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Manta Furtive (Manyta birostris) Crée des leurres acoustiques, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, OIiseau Mémoire (Argus memorial) Reproduit et mémorise tous les sons, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Panthère Nostalgique (Panthera melancholia) Mémoire de la constellation Auctus animalis, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Papillon Scribe (Papillio scripturam) Ses ailes racontent l’histoire de l’île Auctus animalis, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Phasme Sémaphore (Phasmatodea lucidus) Système de communication par rayonnement cosmique, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Poisson Limbe (Coelacanthe limbus) Guide psychique, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Morphologia Pyritia (Pyritia fluidum), 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Scarabée Brownleeite (Scarabæus brownleeite) Source d’énergie cosmique, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Serpent Möbius (Anguis tempus) Maître du temps, 2022
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Vincent Fournier, Oiseau Tempestaire (Coracias tempestari), 2022
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Publications
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Press
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Auctus Animalis by Vincent Fournier & Sébastien Gaxie
September 23, 2022PODCAST – Interview with Vincent Fournier, photographer, and Sébastien Gaxie, composer -
With 'Uchronie' Vincent Fournier lives in the realm of the chimerical.
June 10, 2023The visual artist invites himself to Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature to create a mythology of the future, evoking a relationship between technology and nature. It is... -
Brutalist dreams: how visual artist Vincent Fournier photographs past visions of the future
June 9, 2023French visual artist and photographer Vincent Fournier speaks to Effect Magazine about his work chronicling the mid-century Futurist and Brutalist structures of eastern Europe We first encountered French visual artist... -
The unknown: the new frontier of living
July 14, 2022Amidst cannibal galaxies, extraterrestrial architecture and 3D printers that “fix” astronauts, astrophysicist Ersilia Vaudo leads Domus to the frontiers of space exploration through the exhibition she curated for the International... -
The Swiss Life 4 Hands Prize has just announced its winners!
January 29, 2022The Swiss Life Foundation has just revealed the names of the two winners of its prize: Vincent Fournier and Sébastien Gaxie. Spotlight on Auctus Animalis, the surreal and futuristic bestiary... -
Vincent Fournier: a time traveler taking the past into the future / In conversation with Alice Zucca
April 17, 2020It is easy to cross the border between fiction and reality, while diving in the imagery of Vincent Fournier, and this is not only because of the suspended atmosphere and...
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Exhibitions
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'I'M SORRY DAVE'
Bownik, Philippe Braquenier, Vincent Fournier, Koen Hauser, Inez & Vinoodh, Martina Sauter 5 November 2022 - 14 January 2023Across a sleek and clinical universe of Kubrick’s own design, the movie projected an artificial intelligence so sophisticated that it would, sooner or later, defy its creators; ‘I’m sorry Dave,’... -
LE PRIX SWISS LIFE À 4 MAINS | Vincent Fournier
'Auctus Animalis' 6 September 2022 - 21 October 2023This exhibition will travel around and will be on view at the following locations: From September 6 to 24, 2022: revelation at the Clémentine de la Féronnière gallery , Paris.... -
'Kosmic Memories'
Vincent Fournier 1 May - 19 December 2020Kosmic memories reveals the extraordinary totems of an imagined future civilization. It is not by chance that this science fi ction universe was born between the end of the... -
'Space Utopia'
Vincent Fournier 30 March - 11 May 2019Space Utopia collects over a decade of Fournier’s work surrounding space exploration on earth. Evoking a tenacious nostalgia toward the science fiction of the twentieth century, his photographs reflect on... -
'Brasilia'
Vincent Fournier 16 April - 28 May 2016Brasília is a city composed of reinforced concrete, a paragon of the tenets of modernist architecture and city planning. Enfolded by the artificial Paranoá Lake, the city fashions a curious... -
'Past Forward'
Vincent Fournier 6 September - 31 October 2014In September 2014, The Ravestijn Gallery presented photographer Vincent Fournier’s work from his uncanny series ‘Space Project’ and ‘The Man Machine’ (2012). Shown for the first time in the Netherlands,...
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