I’ve always been interested in living things, but it wasn’t until 2015—after some major upheavals in my life—that I truly began to explore this fascinating subject through my art fascinating subject.

Living things adapt, mutate, resist, proliferate, and escape—but they do not lie. They may seem inert and then come to life; they may seem chaotic but turn out to be structured. They are strange and yet incredibly familiar. It is both moving and unsettling.

It is this tension that I explore through my artistic process: shifts from the organic to the geometric and back again, all the way to abstraction. Whether through drawing by hand or using code with generative systems, I try to evoke these sensations once more.

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I draw, I engrave, I code. Wood, paper, pixels. I draw nourishment from my observations and memories: shapes, structures, fluids. I metabolize this nourishment into systems I call visual percepts.

I’m constantly enriching and developing them, either through drawing or using algorithms that I develop myself. My studio is a kind of living organism.

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I try to evoke a certain sense of reverie—something that can’t be explained, but is felt, and that connects us.

Rémi Balligand