aurèce vettier

Biography

"My approach combines intimate, carefully curated data with powerful algorithms, projected into the real world using artisanal processes and skills such as painting, bronze sculpture and tapestry. These highly personal data and models enable me to tell all kinds of stories."

aurèce vettier is an art project founded in 2019 by Paul Mouginot (b. 1990). This alias, formed using an algorithm, is a metaphor for the desire for a collaborative, open and hybrid approach.

This identity, like all of aurèce vettier’s work, bridges the tangible world where one can exist, draw, paint, sculpt, break, and erase—with the expansive data space, a realm that transcends human grasp. In this virtual space, which involves AI algorithms and heavy mathematical processing, aurèce vettier explores new forms, which are then deployed as tangible objects, deeply intertwined with various crafts.

 

The approach is not to consider the machine-generated elements as a set of finished works, but rather as raw material expanding conceptual possibilities and complementing the initial knowledge of art history.

 

Poetry lies at the heart of aurèce vettier’s entire practice, with the first work being a collaboration between the artist and a machine to publish a book of poetry. The algorithms, never intended to replace the artist, acted as a tool—generating raw material that was then curated and shaped by hand.

 

Building on research from the 1950s, when artists began exploring generative approaches, aurèce vettier has observed that the more sophisticated technologies become, the more fragile are the works they produce.

 

This subtle yet powerful gesture, this perpetual communication between the real and the virtual realms, now unfolds across multiple mediums in a minimalist form. The Potential Herbariums series is made up of oil paintings, bronze sculptures, and digital works, each representing fantastical plant forms dreamed up by artificial intelligences, which could have been found on the slopes of Mount Analogue, the mythical mountain in René Daumal’s unfinished novel.

Works
  • aurèce vettier, element/archipel4go, 2021
    element/archipel4go, 2021
  • aurèce vettier, unknown samples (mid-altitude), 2021
    unknown samples (mid-altitude), 2021
  • aurèce vettier, second tree prosthesis (forms derived from hemp)
    second tree prosthesis (forms derived from hemp)
  • aurèce vettier, hemp islands
    hemp islands
  • aurèce vettier, potential hemp (mind map)
    potential hemp (mind map)
  • aurèce vettier, bitter-hemp, 2022
    bitter-hemp, 2022
  • aurèce vettier, albastrum petalius, 2024
    albastrum petalius, 2024
  • aurèce vettier, la traversée de la forêt, 2025
    la traversée de la forêt, 2025
  • aurèce vettier, an impromptu encounter in a hemp field (attempt), 2024
    an impromptu encounter in a hemp field (attempt), 2024
  • aurèce vettier, an alternate reality with two moons in the sky (attempt), 2024
    an alternate reality with two moons in the sky (attempt), 2024
  • aurèce vettier, a mountain so massive it deflects the rays of the sun at daytime (attempt), 2024
    a mountain so massive it deflects the rays of the sun at daytime (attempt), 2024
  • aurèce vettier, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky (forms derived from hemp), 2022
    the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky (forms derived from hemp), 2022
  • aurèce vettier, sinuiflora absurdica (imp0ssibl3 tr33/1), 2024
    sinuiflora absurdica (imp0ssibl3 tr33/1), 2024
  • aurèce vettier, soluniversum radiatus (topological projection), 2024
    soluniversum radiatus (topological projection), 2024
  • aurèce vettier, aetherpetal radiancium, 2024
    aetherpetal radiancium, 2024
  • aurèce vettier, serenum foliatus, 2024
    serenum foliatus, 2024
  • aurèce vettier, majeur, Al-generated shapes (attempt), 2024
    majeur, Al-generated shapes (attempt), 2024
  • aurèce vettier, annulaire, Al-generated shapes (attempt), 2024
    annulaire, Al-generated shapes (attempt), 2024
  • aurèce vettier, Voie lactée, 2021
    Voie lactée, 2021
  • aurèce vettier, potential hemp (s33d phr4se)
    potential hemp (s33d phr4se)
  • aurèce vettier, tr33/4, 2025
    tr33/4, 2025
  • aurèce vettier, peradam / montagne, 2023
    peradam / montagne, 2023
  • aurèce vettier, montagne / peradam, 2023
    montagne / peradam, 2023
Exhibitions