Vincent Fournier

Vincent Fournier is a French photographer born in Ouagadougou in 1970. He now lives between Arles and Paris.
Is work explores the various mythologies of the Future: space adventures, utopian architectures, the technological transformation of the living... His vision is nourished by childhood memories, including visits to the Palais de la Découverte, which evoke the “scientific marvel”. While photography remains his preferred medium, 3D printing, video and installations are sometimes used to accompany certain projects. Vincent Fournier's images are set in tension by oppositions that disturb our gaze: reality/fiction, logic/absurdity, past/future, magic/science, natural/artificial... He explores futuristic fiction and discovers in our present, or in the past, “shards of the future”.

Flora incognita his latest series is an Atlas of Potential Astrobotany. Between surrealism and scientific speculation, the Flora incognita imagines what extraterrestrial plants might look like. Inspired by the singularity of recently discovered exoplanets, this herbierextrapolates plant life outside our solar system, where the laws of physics differ from those on Earth. A cross between painter Jerome Bosch's Garden of Delights and biologist Ernst Haeckel's Artistic Forms of Nature, this fantastical anthology documents plant species capable of adapting to extreme phenomena specific to other planets: supersonic wind, gravitational collapse, ocean of steam, gaseous tidal waves, metallic rain, hot ice, endless days and nights... In these strange world
A graduate in sociology and visual arts, he went on to study at the National School of Photography in Arles, graduating in 1997. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Mast Foundation in Bologna, the Dragonfly Collection at Domaine des Etangs in Massignac, the LVMH Collection in Paris with Le Bon Marché, the Baccarat Collection in New York...

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