Jean-Vincent Simonet

Faced with the flood, the abundance but also the disembodiment of images in the 21st century, Jean-Vincent Simonet (born 1991 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, France) aspires to revive their aura and their physicality. With their hallucinatory colours, liquid shapes and shifting contours, the artist's photographs are distinctly painterly: urbanity dissolves into phantasmagorical skies illuminated by the city's lights, petals become liquid stains dripping onto each other, naked bodies resemble cyborgs or dolls with their supernatural shine and hues, while industrial machines are reduced to abstraction, a jumble of blurred and contrasting components.