Digital Landscapes

​Digital Landscapes brings together three French artists whose abstract-figurative practices, rooted in the cultures of code, image, and research, explore the notion of landscape from complementary angles, treating it as a field of both aesthetic and technical experimentation.

​Agoria (Sébastien Devaud) shapes biological landscapes from living data, generative protocols, and artificial intelligence tools. Calling his practice Biological Generative Art, he notes that DNA is a code and therefore seeks to “connect the physical with the digital, the living with the cryptic.”

​Florian Zumbrunn composes natural landscapes, ranging from cartographic to contemplative, where light, grid, and topographic lines orchestrate perception. Drawing on both Japanese and French influences, he asserts a process in which the algorithm remains at the service of emotion.

​Chepertom (Thomas Collet) transforms the industrial imaginary into digital sanctuaries, using digital media as a raw material subjected to glitch techniques—an art of “precise and intentional” error—where artifacts, elevated into a plastic grammar, reveal the chaos of a world “where continuity is an illusion.”

​Since 2023, major institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, MoMA, and LACMA have integrated blockchain-related works into their collections, while the Musée d’Orsay in 2024 presented an exhibition by Agoria entitled Le Code d’Orsay, marking the starting point of a legitimization of blockchain-based digital art. The three artists in this exhibition are part of this renewal of digital art, bridging the world of web3 with that of institutional contemporary art.

​— Edouard, Lead Curator