LE PRIX SWISS LIFE À 4 MAINS | 'Auctus Animalis': Vincent Fournier
The Swiss Life 4 Hands Prize is a unique competition promoting emerging artists who, together, create a dialogue between music and photography. The winning collaborative exhibition of Vincent Fournier and Sébastien Gaxie, called Auctus Animalis (latin for animal growth), is an initiatory fable on the metamorphosis of hybrid species, a poetic question on the transformation of the living.
This 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.
- From November 10 to 13, 2022: exhibition at a pp ro che, Paris.
- From January 13 to February 26, 2023: exhibition at the Center Claude Cahun, Nantes.
- From March 8 to May 21, 2023: exhibition at the Cité musicale, Metz.
- July 2023: exhibition in Arles during Les Rencontres d'Arles 2023.
- From September 27 to October 21, 2023: exhibition at the Photographic Center, Marseille.
At the crossroads of speculative biology and surrealism, the project of Vincent Fournier and Sébastien Gaxie is an astonishing futuristic bestiary associating history and anticipation, memory and science fiction. Auctus animalis, questions new relationships with nature in our world of tomorrow.
“This initiatory story of the Levant captain, who undertakes a big journey during which he meets and fraternizes with a fantastic bestiary: a flying cat, a time maker of time, a scribe butterfly, a palimpsest fish and many other species with extravagant donations . These animals do not find their place on earth, because they are hybrid creatures. To restore a balance they must become stars. We are going to be witnesses to this transformation. The captain, engaged by a consortium, goes to seek with a crew reduces meteorite in the Pacific. The meteorite seems to contain brownleeite, a metal that could accelerate the space conquest. The captain will not find the material so desired but a mirage island, a reflection of his desires. In this magic island, metaphorical , plants, minerals and animals have been shaped, increased by invisible intelligence. ”
