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The Frontiers of Cognisance
The Frontiers of Cognisance
March 13, 2024
General Army Headquarters #2
© Vincent Fournier. Courtesy of Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris
Dysnomia is the moon of the planet Eris – as well as the name of a memory impairment affecting a person’s reference points. Vincent Fournier’s images take us on a journey to the frontiers of cognisance: a journey into a world where things are not always identifiable, where the temporalities of the past and future blend together into an upside-down reality.
The showcase plays on the dreamlike quality of utopias that resonate in our imaginations. Renditions of unspecified flowers illustrate that living things are in a constant state of transformation; their representation is based on a combination of photography and post-processing techniques – thereby questioning the malleable nature of reality and its reproductions.
This is juxtaposed with the futuristic architecture of Brasilia (whose realisation coincided with the launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957), as well as the unique landscapes of Iceland, which have been used for spacewalk simulations by NASA’s Artemis campaign.
For the past twenty years, Vincent Fournier has been exploring an imaginary future – searching the present for glimpses of what it might hold, traces of a realm “on the other side of the looking glass”, where we are able to ‘remember’ what is yet to come.
Katrin UllmannThe showcase plays on the dreamlike quality of utopias that resonate in our imaginations. Renditions of unspecified flowers illustrate that living things are in a constant state of transformation; their representation is based on a combination of photography and post-processing techniques – thereby questioning the malleable nature of reality and its reproductions.
This is juxtaposed with the futuristic architecture of Brasilia (whose realisation coincided with the launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957), as well as the unique landscapes of Iceland, which have been used for spacewalk simulations by NASA’s Artemis campaign.
For the past twenty years, Vincent Fournier has been exploring an imaginary future – searching the present for glimpses of what it might hold, traces of a realm “on the other side of the looking glass”, where we are able to ‘remember’ what is yet to come.
General Army Headquarters #2
© Vincent Fournier. Courtesy of Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris
Iceland Moon Mars Simulation #1
© Vincent Fournier. Courtesy of Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris
The Itamaraty Palace
© Vincent Fournier. Courtesy of Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris
The National Museum #3
© Vincent Fournier. Courtesy of Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris