Interview

Victor Clavelly‘s works subvert the notions of materiality and immateriality, particularly through their “faux-semblants” prints. They dress gynoids and trolls, giving shape to a sharp visual and narrative world that hosts both Rachel the baby dragon and the puppet Pierrot, offspring in revolt against their creator, living and emancipated golems. You are a designer and 3D artist, graduated from Duperré school in 2020, you are the creator of four clothing collections. How do you define your work? And what is your point of view on its evolution over the last few years? I work on artificial bodies, I like to create …

The reading of ” Digital Species “, by Hélène Jeudy published by FP&CF, transported me in a universe with an imposing visual strength, which is embodied through a generous, multiple and imaginative design. Throughout the pages, between the leaves and the flowers, a fantastic garden takes place, inhabited by unknown, mysterious and hybrid species, in harmony with their environment. This first encounter with Hélène Jeudy’s work made me want to ask her a few questions about this book and her artistic production, which regularly takes shape within GERIKO, the collective she co-founded with Antoine Caecke, and which ranges from contemporary …

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 …

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 …

“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. …

  Of all the artists I enjoy to publish on Expo156, there is one whose work immediately sticks to our eyeballs, a bit like his extensions of metal or transparent glass which merge with the human body. This is the artist Kaan Ulgener. Originally from Istanbul, he lives and works in London. I told myself that I was going to ask him a few questions to learn more about his futuristic work with biomechanical sensitivity. Can you define your work? Kaan: Id define my work as heavily conceptualized, scifi influenced works for the wearable technology industry and cyberfashion/digitalfashion and there …