This Spring, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature Presents UCHRONIE by Vincent Fournier
A fictional reconstruction of history, a narration of facts as they may have happened in an alternative reality, this is what UCHRONIE (uchronia in English) refers to. The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature has borrowed this term to title its latest exhibition, which features the work of photographer Vincent Fournier, an artist whose work revolves around two major themes: the adventure of space and the reinvention of life.
Born in the 70s, Fournier belongs to a generation cradled by science fiction and stories of anticipation, which gave him a glimpse of a future turned towards other worlds. An avid explorer of these futuristic and utopian imaginaries, he now makes his childhood dreams come true with the help of innovative digital techniques that he applies to images and sculpture, which become a means to travel in space and time. What if life on Earth had evolved in a different way? What if animals had been gifted with the art of poetry? What if Mars could be surveyed from Earth? What if?
Dedicated to our relationship with nature and technology, the exhibition questions our world through the artist’s disruptive lens. Between dream and fiction, Vincent Fournier takes the viewer on a journey beyond reality, where we are confronted with outlandish specimens with new qualities, we can observe the possible and infinite transformations of plants, the myth of space travel…
Photos: Michaël Huard
