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aurèce vettier

since 2019

About aurèce vettier is an art project founded in 2019 by Paul Mouginot (b. 1990). The alias, generated through an algorithm, embodies a collaborative, open, and hybrid approach-one that blurs the boundaries between human intent and machine generated possibilities. At the core of aurèce vettier's practice lies a constant back-and-forth between two intertwined dimensions: a sur-naure and a sur-reality. The sur-nature emerges from algorithmic explorations of organic forms-particularly in the Potential Herbariums series, where Al generates impossible flora trained on millions of botanical specimens. These spectral plants, transposed into oil paintings, bronze sculptures, and tapestries, question our contemporary urge to digitize, sanctify, and ultimately erase nature. Despite vast training datasets, artificial intelligence struggles to replicate the adaptive logic of living organisms, producing instead a fragile, self-destructive ecosystem-an "anti-Darwinian" nature akin to the dreamlike landscapes of Mount Ana-logue, the unfinished philosophical novel by René Daumal. Parallel to this, the sur-reality explores the subconscious as a space for AI-driven creation. Since 2021, aurèce vettier has developed and trained custom Al models on personal archives-childhood photographs, family records, digital traces— to generate dreamlike visual compositions based on his waking recollections. This fusion of personal memory and algorithmic reconstruction has led to le travail des rêves, a body of work that materializes through various craftsmanship techniques, including painting, sculpture, bas-reliefs, and textile-based mediums such as tapestry. Rather than treating Al as a tool, aurèce vettier approaches it as a collabo-rator-an entity that introduces rupture, anomaly, and poetic accident into artistic creation. By continuously shifting between computational processing and material experimentation, his work extends a lineage of generative art while questioning the limits of artificial intelligence itself. Poetry remains the backbone of aurèce vettier's entire approach, from his early Al-assisted poetry book Elegia Machina (2019) to his sculptural and pictorial practice today. Whether through algorithmic distortions of language, landscapes, or memory, his work operates at the threshold between the known and the unknown-forever navigating the space between human consciousness and the machine's alien gaze.
CV Solo Exhibitions 2025 as the world enters into resonance, galerie darmo, Paris, France 2024 "fôret, tentative," Darmo, Antibes, FR 2022 Circular Ruins, curated by: Dayneris Brito, Gismondi & Darmo, Paris, FR 2021 Opus Sectile, Gismondi & Darmo, Paris, FR Group Exhibitions 2025 Le Monde selon l’IA, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France 2025 "Echos du passé, promesses du futur", Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, FR 2024 Le Travail des Rêves, part of Bright Moments Paris AI Collection, Bigaignon, Paris, FR À la Recherche de Vera Molnár, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU 2023 AD.VM.AV.IA, curated by: Vincent Baby, Le Transfo Emmaüs Solidarité, Paris, FR 5 years of Darmo, Gismondi & Darmo, Paris, FR 2022 Ground Odyssey, Le Marais, Val-Saint-Germain, FR Tellus Meta, Fondation Brownstone, Paris, FR TEFAF Maastricht Booth, Gismondi, Maastricht, NE Sillons, Association Fertile Art, Paris, FR 2021 Latent Botanist Writings, Gilles & Boissier, Paris FR Liminal Territories, curated by Filippo Lorenzin, pal-project, Paris, FR 2020 Programme Spécial, curated by Gaël Charbeau & Yvannoe Kruger, La Méditerranée, Poush, Paris, FR art fairs
2024 The Digital Art Mile with Cinello Unlimited, curated by Serena Tabacchi, Basel, Switzerland
 2024 Matter & Shape at India Mahdavi Project Room #12, curated by Dan Thawley, Paris, France
 2023 Art Paris with Spaceless Gallery, Paris, France
 2022 Asia Now with 91530, Paris, France
 2022 TEFAF Maastricht with galerie darmo & Gismondi, Paris, France Residencies 2025 GLITCH Art & Tech Residency V, Château du Feÿ, France
 2024 GLITCH Art & Tech Residency IV, Château du Feÿ, France
 2024 Dragon Hill Residency, Mouans-Sartoux, France 
 2023 GLITCH Art & Tech Residency III, Château du Feÿ, France 
 2022 GLITCH Art & Tech Residency II, Château du Feÿ, France 2022 Kinono Art Gathering, Tinos, GR Château du Marais, Val-Saint-Germain, FR 2021 GLITCH, Château du Feÿ, FR Awards 2025 Lumen Prize, Finalist, Still Image Award & Hybrid Award
 2024 Lumen Prize, Finalist, Still Image Award 2020 Grand Prix, AI.ART Gallery Award, KR Public and Private Collections Gucci Collection, Paris, FR Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MoCDA), Venice, IT Publications 2024 On NFTs. Collector's Edition, Robert Alice, published by Taschen Vera Molnár, B. Chauveau, published by Centre Pompidou 2022 Circular Ruins; aurèce vettier, Dayneris Brito, Alexis Beaulieu, Henri Guette, Livia Dewachter-Brialy, Vincent Lubelli, Robbie Barrat, published by Darmo (ISBN 978-2-9569846-1-0) 2021 Opus Sectile: from hardstone marquetry to aurèce vettier; Elisabeth Jochim, Filippo Lorenzin, Paul Mouginot, Katarzyna Cichy, published by Darmo (ISBN: 978-2-9569846-1-0) Futura Próxima curated for Gucci, Designed by Paris-based design studio Ohlman Consorti, Contributor: aurèce vettier, published by A Magazine
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