aurèce vettier
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When landscapes appear in aurèce vettier's work, they present themselves as spaces held at a distance, whose atmosphere retains a particular opacity. The image organizes itself around partially indeterminate zones, an incomplete visibility. This aesthetic corresponds to the way memories reconfigure themselves in dream activity. It engages a notion of dream-knowledge: a knowledge that forms through contact with unstable images. The technologies and techniques mobilized by the artist fully participate in this construction. aurèce vettier trains generative artificial intelligence models on images linked to childhood, assuming that the algorithm introduces new continuities. The process produces a plurality of propositions, some of which are then translated into painting by a decorative painter. Their role fits within a logic of studio practice and craft.
This first body of work, belonging to sur-reality, maintains a direct connection with a second field of investigation: nature. aurèce vettier develops their own datasets by gathering visual elements from diverse sources in order to constitute a potential herbarium in latent space.
7th April - 13th May
Curated by art critic Dominique Moulon
@Romain Darnaud
The fragments of augmented nature also take form in oil on canvas, as well as in Aubusson-point tapestry, and in bronze using notably the so-called lost-wood technique. In these works, levels of detail drawn from observation coexist with zones of computational approximation. Thus, aurèce vettier's work unfolds in a pendulum movement between sur-reality and sur-nature. It articulates memory and invention, archive and projection, computation and craft, proposing a visual experience in which the living and the dream speak to one another.
The process generates a plurality of proposals, then a work of selection, refinement and stabilization leads to the finished piece. The artist often chooses to include their prompts sometimes deliberately minimal in the titles. This visibility of the textual cues situates the linguistic dimension of the protocol and clarifies its intent.
The generated images are then translated into paint by a decorative painter. His role follows a workshop and craft logic, comparable to that of an Aubusson tapestry weaver or an artisan working in pietra dura: he aims to reproduce the provided images as faithfully as possible. This translation relies on a close, ongoing and intensive exchange with aurèce vettier, involving back-and-forth iterations and successive adjustments until convergence toward an exact form. The whole situates the project within a historical continuum in which the circulation of images, reproduction procedures, collaboration and technical mastery are constitutive parameters of artistic production.
aurèce vettier, an entity slowly moving in a vast field (attempt)
aurèce vettier, a white borzoi with a pink leg watching a bolt of lightning strike the garden of a French castle
About aurèce vettier
aurèce vettier is an artistic project founded in 2019 by Paul Mouginot. Its practice explores the relationships between artificial intelligence, intimate memory and craft traditions. Drawing from personal archives, the artist develops custom algorithms that allow him to transform this data into images and speculative narratives. This work is structured around two conceptual axes: sur-nature, where impossible botanical forms generated by artificial intelligence emerge, and sur-réalité, which recomposes dreams, memories and everyday signs into symbolic landscapes.
The images thus produced are then materialized in mediums rooted in the tradition of fine craftsmanship, including Aubusson tapestry, bronze, hardstone, painting and NFTs, in close dialogue with specialized artisans. This hybrid practice bridges contemporary technologies and historical materialities.
In 2025, his work was presented at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (macLYON) in the exhibition Échos du passé, promesses du futur, as well as at the Jeu de Paume in the exhibition Le monde selon l'IA, and as part of artistic events organized with NVIDIA. Works by aurèce vettier are now held in several major collections across Europe, Asia and the United States.
About Dominique Moulon
Art critic and exhibition curator, Dominique Moulon studied visual arts at the École nationale supérieure d'art (ENSA) in Bourges and holds a doctorate in Arts and Art Sciences. A member of the Association française des commissaires d'exposition (CEA) and the Digital Art Museum (DAM) in Berlin, he has curated exhibitions in art centers, galleries and fairs in Arcueil, Aubusson, Brussels, Dubai, Le Bourget, Hangzhou, Istanbul, Malta, Milan, Monaco, Montreuil, Paris, Seoul, Venice and online for Approche, Cifra and Danae. Since 2015, he has been associate curator of the Némo International Biennial of Digital Arts of the Île-de-France Region. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), he has written numerous articles for collective works, exhibition catalogues and specialist magazines.
He currently collaborates with the journals Art Press, Art Absolument, Arts Hebdo Médias and TK-21, publishes on Art in the Digital Age and coordinates the MOOC Digital Paris. He is also the author of the books Art contemporain nouveaux médias (2011), Art et numérique en résonance (2015), L'art au-delà du digital (2018) and Chefs-d'œuvre du XXIe siècle(2021), published by Nouvelles Éditions Scala. Dominique Moulon has taught at the universities of Paris VIII and Panthéon-Sorbonne, served as visiting professor at the Parsons School of Design in Paris and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, lectured across Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia, and is a member of the National Network for Hybrid Arts and Digital Cultures (HACNUM).
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Exhibition duration: April 7th – May 13th, 2026
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 2pm - 6pm, Monday and Sunday closed
Address: Artverse Gallery, 5bis Rue de Beauce, 75003, Paris