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La Galerie is delighted to present SPACE UTOPIA, a solo exhibition showing the photographic works that explore the spirit of nostalgia and futurism by French artist Vincent Fournier.
In the summer of 2023, Fournier astounded visitors at the newly renovated Musée de la Chasse in Paris. His enchanting artworks adorned all three floors of the XVIIth century building, seamlessly blending reality and fiction.
As anticipation grows for Fournier’s upcoming exhibition, La Galerie is thrilled to present a carefully curated selection of his latest and earliest works from 25 January to 23 March 2024.
Iceland Moon Mars SimulationFournier embarked on a captivating chapter within his ongoing series, delving into the cosmic odyssey of “Space Utopia.” Venturing forth to the awe-inspiring realm of Iceland in August 2021, he immersed himself in an extraordinary endeavor: capturing the Iceland Moon Mars Simulation expedition through his lens.“It is a collaboration between the Icelandic Space Agency and Professor Michael Lye with the participation of NASA/Johnson Space Center whose goal is to test a new spacesuit of the Artemis generation: the MS2.
The sites for the Iceland Moon Mars Simulation Expedition were selected for their resemblance to an environment similar to that which would be found on the Martian surface and which could serve as landing, research and habitation sites for future planned missions to the Moon and Mars. These sites include lava tunnels, glaciers, glacial debris fields, basaltic black sands, volcanic craters, and remote areas containing buried ice. Research will determine how astronauts can train to identify signs of Martian life using geothermal energy and explore how frozen water sources in the polar regions of the Moon and Mars can be reused as fuel for rockets and for long-term human habitation.”
Vincent Fournier
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Vincent Fournier is a French artist who explores significant mythologies of the future: space exploration, utopian architecture, artificial intelligence, and living transformation…After being awarded a diploma in both sociology and visual arts, he studies at the National School of Photography in Arles and obtains his diploma in 1997. His works can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York, the Centre Pompidou Paris, the LVMH contemporary Art collection, the Dragonfly Collection in Massignac, the Museum of Fine Arts of M.con, Fondation Bullukian in Lyon, the ArtScience Museum in Dublin or the Baccarat Hotel Collection in New-York, among others.
