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Is it past, or is it future ? – Interview with Floryan Varennes –

Floryan Varennes is an artist whose work is positioned in a temporality between medievalism and science fiction. His visual universe, adorned with armor, medical equipment and plants, offers us other possibilities for thinking about bodies and ways of caring for them. On the occasion of “Violence Vitale”, his exhibition which is open all summer at the Maison des Métiers du Cuir in Graulhet, he gives an interview to Expo156. A chance to discover his work which, without any complex, appeals to multiple imaginaries. Can you present us the path that led you to the work you have been producing for …

Interview

Head in the Water – Interview with Talking Shell –

Camille Mercier, aka Talking Shell, is a jewelry designer and illustrator. Her exceptionally delicate work is largely inspired by the biology of wild and aquatic worlds. In this interview, which I am extremely proud to present to you, she expresses herself for the first time on the meaning of her work and takes us on a journey through the world of plankton with a communicative joy. Can you introduce yourself, what is your background ? I’m Camille, I’m 27 years old and I live in Versailles, France, a beautiful city very close to its conservative cliché ! I studied Applied …

Whole New Worlds

Something is Happening

Something is clearly happening. This is something we said to each other at “Hortus Conclusus”, the last exhibition I had the pleasure of visiting, organized by students from the art school in the city where I live. These words every time they are pronounced make me feel an immense joy, an impatience about the future and a sense of gratitude to be experiencing the best that the present is able to offer us. Something is happening, we are unable to name this something, but yet we can feel it collectively, deep inside ourselves. It is something that is related to …

Interview

Eromorphosis(1) Les Âmes en Fleurs. Interview with Valentin Ranger

“Eromorphosis (1) Les Âmes en Fleurs” is a 3D film directed by the artist Valentin Ranger. This film presents us with a virtual poetic walk through the villa Noailles, around a profusion of sculptural and theatrical installations, metamorphoses celebrating the diversity of bodies, Love and the fragility of flowers. I wanted to talk with Valentin about his film because I was moved by this work, by its tenderness, its hybrid graphic beauty, its power to enchant. Can you introduce yourself and your plastic work? My name is Valentin Ranger, I am an artist and I am currently working in Paris. …

Joint Interview

Creatures of the Virtual Realms

Like the biogeographic realms on the surface of the earth, the virtual realms are also populated with creatures, wonderful life forms. We will discover here through the presentation of ten works a multiplicity of creators’ viewpoints and creative approaches that explore the biological possibilities through virtual technology. From Miri Poppino Kut a raindrop that came to life to fashionista nudibranchs this article will also be for you the opportunity to make amazing encounters ! Sofia Crespo “How do we engage with the rich diversity of the natural world in virtual, digital space? This project is part of an ongoing exploration …

Whole New Worlds

25 names of artistic movements you would like to see emerge in the coming years.

A few days ago, I asked my followers in a GI story to suggest imaginary names for art movements they would like to see emerge in the coming years. Having received many beautiful answers, I have chosen to share 25 of them in this article! Moreover, I suggest to continue this speculative activity to all creators who recognize themselves in these names by using them as hashtags to define their artistic works. The full list : N.E.S.T (Nature-Empowered StoryTelling) Intuitive unlearned expression Art Terraforming : When a large place is repurposed by all types of art and installations Fleurisme Britneyism Holographic …

Fashion

🌳 IN MY DISTOPIC GARDEN 🌲 Carla Boré Collection Spring/Summer 21

It is often said that clothes are supposed to reflect who we are inside. What Carla Boré‘s Spring/Summer 2021 collection reflects is a rich and wild inner life. Where joy finds its source in the experimentation of shapes, textures and colors, where creativity opens a gate to new worlds. Organic, strange and oniric new worlds, which are walked through by women who have preferred, in a nose-thumbing to fatalism, a smiling evasion to a cowardly escape. The dressed silhouettes of these women are vaporous, mutant, oversized, asymmetrical and draped. They embody a rebirth of nature, a supernatural rebirth. “As a …

Joint Interview

Humanimality

In recent times my attention has often been focused on works that seem to converge, each in its own way, towards a point where humanity and animality cease to be perceived in a contradictory manner. These works have a lot to say, whether it is about our cohabitation with nature, or about our identities and the links they have with our bodies. To feed this reflection I asked three artists—Anthr0morph, Anni Puolakka and Omenmalum—how they articulate the relationship between humanity and animality in their work. Anthr0morph “I like to blur the lines between human and animal and reflect how biology …

Playlist

Fall Stories

Celebrating our last escapes into the woods, warming from the last rays of sunshine shining on the yellow leaves, feeling the dreariness that will come to turn the world off, waiting for the future snows in front of rocks that are getting darker and darker, and contemplating our aging skins that are turning into cliffs. This playlist tells something about those some fall images. Image credit : @s_a_mayer

Storytelling

The recipe of the bird with a silver beak

I) On a rainy day, bury in eggshells under five doses of wax and three of cement, your tears of fatigue. II) Let it fossilize over a low heat for a few years. III) Draw the path to your destination with your fossils and then devour it with your eyes. IV) Let it digest in a large grey rock while you learn to let go. V) Listen to the wisdom emanating from the underground song of the beak of prehistoric automatons and study it. VI) Cut out your mistakes with a lyre and tame them like knucklebones. VII) Remove them …