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“Friction opens interstices, breaches, and pores that Pierre Moulin, as an architect of the minuscule, sees as vast expanses of possibilities. For this first solo exhibition at CONFORT MENTAL, Pierre Moulin explores the sites of accidents in the Anthropocene. These are the places where nature encounters human experience: where concrete cracks, where rust eats away, where vegetation infiltrates the ruins of our certainties. Pierre Moulin seeks signs of rebirth. He tracks the cracks through which life resurfaces, generating the unexpected and the strange, challenging the reality of our environments. His works invite us to take a sensitive look at our natural spaces, irreversibly degraded, while reflecting on the dynamics of creation and destruction.
"Le Grand Silence," a virtual reality film, envelops us in a constantly evolving landscape. The viewer, plunged into a transitory state, becomes the traveler in an initiatory narrative whose only outcome is a return to Earth. From a decaying room, where only a disheveled bed remains, to a dizzying tunnel of mycelium, the scenes unfold, revealing a multitude of potential landscapes. This return to Earth symbolizes the death of our certainties, of our constructions and dominions, but also carries the promise of a rebirth, where life always finds a way to reappear in another form. When immense buildings melt into the sky, they mark a reintegration into the cycle of life. These structures, symbols of the human era, gradually fade, reintegrated into a nature reclaiming its rights. Passing through this mycelium tunnel thus becomes a necessity to redefine our place in the world.
Pierre Moulin's sculptures, called Assets, evoke the modular elements of video games. They are combinations, hybridizations of fantasies, where different species and materials become one. Like a hunter-gatherer, he collects animal, plant, and mineral forms in search of their irregularities. Once scanned and cataloged on his phone, he scrutinizes, analyzes, and dissects them to understand their inner workings. Pierre Moulin is interested in mutating species, proliferating fungi, and wilting flowers, which he constantly deconstructs and reconstructs on his 3D software. Only when he prints them does he succeed in fixing them. These sculptures represent only a tiny part of a whole, somewhere between a bestiary and a herbarium.”
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"Le Grand Silence," a virtual reality film, envelops us in a constantly evolving landscape. The viewer, plunged into a transitory state, becomes the traveler in an initiatory narrative whose only outcome is a return to Earth. From a decaying room, where only a disheveled bed remains, to a dizzying tunnel of mycelium, the scenes unfold, revealing a multitude of potential landscapes. This return to Earth symbolizes the death of our certainties, of our constructions and dominions, but also carries the promise of a rebirth, where life always finds a way to reappear in another form. When immense buildings melt into the sky, they mark a reintegration into the cycle of life. These structures, symbols of the human era, gradually fade, reintegrated into a nature reclaiming its rights. Passing through this mycelium tunnel thus becomes a necessity to redefine our place in the world.
Pierre Moulin's sculptures, called Assets, evoke the modular elements of video games. They are combinations, hybridizations of fantasies, where different species and materials become one. Like a hunter-gatherer, he collects animal, plant, and mineral forms in search of their irregularities. Once scanned and cataloged on his phone, he scrutinizes, analyzes, and dissects them to understand their inner workings. Pierre Moulin is interested in mutating species, proliferating fungi, and wilting flowers, which he constantly deconstructs and reconstructs on his 3D software. Only when he prints them does he succeed in fixing them. These sculptures represent only a tiny part of a whole, somewhere between a bestiary and a herbarium.”
- Emma Brisot
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