ARTWORK DOSSIER / 2026

VISAGES DE
PORCEL(AI)NE

Six generative video portraits bring Limoges porcelain, Korean ceramic traditions and contemporary technologies into dialogue.

SOUTH KOREA SELECTION 202616TH GWANGJU BIENNALEUCCN MEDIA ART PAVILION / G.MAPACQUIRED BY THE CITY OF LIMOGES

06VIDEO PORTRAITS

9:16PORTRAIT FORMAT

4KHIGH DEFINITION

2026CITY OF LIMOGES ACQUISITION

OFFICIAL SELECTION / SOUTH KOREA / 2026

16TH GWANGJU
CONTEMPORARY ART
BIENNALE.

UNESCO CREATIVE CITIES PAVILION

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE was selected by the organisers of the 16th Gwangju Contemporary Art Biennale to represent the City of Limoges in the UNESCO Creative Cities Pavilion.

The Gwangju Biennale is one of Asia’s major international gatherings for contemporary art. It brings together artists, curators, institutions and audiences around the most current forms of creation: image, installation, performance, technology, memory and society.

The UNESCO Creative Cities Pavilion brings together cities that make culture, design, digital art and innovation engines of cooperation. This invitation places the Limoges ↔ Gwangju dialogue on an international stage, between porcelain expertise, heritage and contemporary creation.

GWANGJU · SOUTH KOREALIMOGES · REPRESENTED CITYUCCN / UNESCO

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

MATTER,
MEMORY,
TRANSMISSION.

Matter is not invoked as mere ornament: its milky whiteness, translucency, delicate reliefs, fractures and shifts of light shape the very identity of the figures, dissolving the boundary between body and ceramic.

Each portrait arises from an encounter between the porcelain traditions of Limoges — their rigour, precision and sense of decoration — and Korean ceramic legacies, which carry another relationship to matter, emptiness and gesture.

Artificial intelligence acts as one medium among others: not to imitate artisans’ gestures, but to explore new forms, create imperceptible movements and weave connections between references from different places and eras.

What is transmitted is never reproduced unchanged. It is received, passed through, and made alive again.

MATTER & IDENTITY

Whiteness, translucency, fractures and light form an almost mineral presence.

DIALOGUE OF TRADITIONS

Limoges, Korean heritage and contemporary technologies: places, eras and gestures meet.

FRACTURE & REPAIR

The visible break becomes a sign of resilience and a line of light.

METAMORPHOSIS

Identity is built layer by layer in a perpetual becoming.

VIDEO WORKS / 2026

THE
PORTRAITS

02 VIDEOS · 9:16 · CONTINUOUS LOOP · 4K

01 / APORTRAIT A — LIMOGES ↔ GWANGJU22 SEC · 9:16 · 4K · LOOP

02 / FPORTRAIT F — LIMOGES ↔ GWANGJU22 SEC · 9:16 · 4K · LOOP

ALL SOURCE IMAGES

THE
IMAGES

11 VISUALS

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Portrait 01 — Limoges / Gwangju — 01Portrait 01 — Limoges / Gwangju

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Portrait 02 — ceramic territories — 02Portrait 02 — ceramic territories

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Portrait 03 — light and matter — 03Portrait 03 — light and matter

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Portrait 04 — mineral memory — 04Portrait 04 — mineral memory

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Portrait 05 — transmission — 05Portrait 05 — transmission

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Portrait 06 — metamorphosis — 06Portrait 06 — metamorphosis

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Portrait study — mountain and porcelain — 07Portrait study — mountain and porcelain

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Material study — cracked porcelain — 08Material study — cracked porcelain

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Memory, transmission and presence — 09Memory, transmission and presence

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — Fracture made visible — 10Fracture made visible

VISAGES DE PORCEL(AI)NE — G.MAP — context view — 11G.MAP — context view

DISPLAY SYSTEM / 2026

A MODULAR
INSTALLATION.

The six works can be presented on screens, tablets or phones adapted to the venue. Their slow movement, direct framing and silence invite attention to the transformations of matter and the circulation of light.

NATURE: Generative video installation
COMPOSITION: Six video portraits
PROCESS: Artistic research, AI, image creation and video composition
FORMAT: Portrait 9:16 / HD / 4K
PLAYBACK: Continuous loop
ACQUISITION: City of Limoges

VISAGES DEPORCEL(AI)NE

16TH GWANGJUCONTEMPORARY ARTBIENNALE.

MATTER,MEMORY,TRANSMISSION.