François Quévillon examines the interactions among environmental changes, societal issues and technological developments. His interdisciplinary practice explores phenomena of the world and perception by implementing processes sensitive to environmental fluctuations and human interference. He elaborates systems with unstable parameters, compressed or endlessly evolving spatiotemporal structures. Engaging both scientific observation and a contemplative state of mind, his works are an invitation to experience ambiguous situations in which the elusive manifests itself. They poetically and critically address planetary disruptions as well as those affecting contemporary media, notably by probing the relationships between algorithms and photographic images. He investigates how technology alters human cognition, culture, the environment, our relationships to space, to time and to one another.
Frequently developed during artist residencies involving field research, his work has been featured around the world at exhibitions and events dedicated to contemporary art, cinema and digital creation. Among them : Tangent Media at the Gravity Field Art Gallery (Shenzhen); House Warming at the HKSTP Experience Centre (Hong Kong); OMAF at the Oil Tank Culture Park and When Spiders Spin Dusk at the Coreana Museum of Art (Seoul); Connecting the Dots (Mexico), Sundance’s New Frontier exhibition (Park City); Spaces Under Scrutiny at the Knockdown Center (New York); International Symposium on Electronic Art (Gwangju, Dubai and Albuquerque); Flora and İnsan Eli Değmiş at Kalyon Kültür (Istanbul); .dreams at the Theatre of Digital Art (Dubai); Intervals (Nizhny Novgorod); FILE (São Paulo); IndieBo (Bogotá); Festival de la Imagen (Manizales); LOOP Barcelona; Climate Art Collection @ Transmediale Vorspiel (Berlin); Chroniques (Marseille); Mirage Festival (Lyon); Mois Multi (Québec); FIFA, Mutek, NeurIPS, RIDM, Elektra and International Digital Art Biennal (Montréal). Different iterations of his solo exhibition entitled La Terre en suspens have recently been presented in Canada.