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LandcutsIn Landcuts Paul-Émile Rioux questions our perception of urban territory and, more broadly, our perception of the world, which we are fragmenting more and more into material, natural, and virtual spaces, into economic megalopolises and deserts. Each landcut is a digital time-space extract from a virtual world that Rioux has continuously developed for the past 20 years. This work is designed for large scale production, with prints up to 80 x 320 cm for panoramas, and animated digital renderings available for different screen formats.
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GeonsGeons explores American vision scientist Irving Biedermann's theory of recognition-by-components (1987), according to which our eye instantly reads complex or unknown shapes by breaking them into elementary shapes. Rioux throws a wrench into the simplification inherent to this pattern-making theory by developing irregular progressions which make total sense yet break usual material associations to create feelings of vertigo, pleasure and dread, simultaneously. Geons are designed mostly in square formats for 150 x 150 cm archival pigment prints.
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Turquoise defaultTurquoise Default plays on elemental notions, each image integrating two horizons glowing with some strange illumination just beyond reach, and a view of a subconscious, watery underworld. At first they seem to offer a sparkling promise of what's to come - something powerful and growing. Transformation take place in the depths; but the ocean can absorb only so much of our waste before it all comes back to us, in a world irredeemably altered.
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