Vivien Racault is a versatile, young French artist from Reunion Island: he uses photography, but also music, writing and multimedia to expand a global artwork, deeply rooted in the great tradition of cosmogonies, from the original myths that have built our human civilizations to the personal myths of poets like Charles Baudelaire or H.P. Lovecraft, from the representation of Eden in religious art to the tracks of this lost homeland evoked by painter Caspar David Friedrich.
Fantastic universe, metaphysical research, chiaroscuro aesthetics : Vivien Racault's artwork is all of these, summoning dark forces and climaxes that remind of Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman's works, building vertiginous bridges between the transcendent sublime and the immanent grotesque, between tradition and contemporary art... in the end, reconciling mankind somewhere between North and South, in a supernatural place deriving its shades from medieval art as well as pop culture.
In our time of earth's exhaustion and cosmic fury, and in the urgency of a revolution of a humanity at last liberated from the tyranny of numbers, this artwork confesses a disturbing topicality.
Between plant and ghost
This exhibition will feature 8
manipulated photographies set in a mysterious environment.
'Between plant and ghost' is
a poetic and critic fantasy about the notion of evolution, in particular the radical transformation of our consciousness and connection to the world induced by the dematerialisation process which characterizes the human epic since its origin.
The exhibition shows 2 series of photographs that travel between present time (
Insiders) and a future time, remote or altermative (
Outsiders).
These images tell us about the turning point we experience nowadays with the rise of the almighty information network and that will be remembered as the most important period in the history of the evolution of the human species since the invention of language.
7 artworks from the Mysteries series are also being showed on levels 1 and 2.
Free entry, artworks are for sale.
Contains material that may be sensitive to some viewers. Not advised for younger persons.
Opening times:
Monday to Thursday: 10am - 6:15pm
Friday: 10am - 5pm
Saturday-Sunday: closed
Exhibition will be closed exceptionally during special events.