PIERRE PAUZE

pierrepauze@hotmail.fr

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BIO

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Pierre Pauze constructs speculative visual systems where science, finance, and mythology collide. Through films, immersive installations, and autonomous protocols, he manipulates the infrastructures that govern contemporary perception—technological, economic, and symbolic alike. As an artist, inventor, economist, and technologist, he engages in a practice where images are not representations but operational forces, oscillating between utopia and dystopia, fiction and functional architecture.

His work explores the threshold where belief systems and distributed aesthetics merge. Drawing on the mechanics of blockchain, AI, and networked imaginaries, he investigates how memes function as egregores—self-organizing, viral entities that operate as the digital-age equivalents of cultic symbols. In his practice, visual economies do not merely illustrate speculative value but enact it, turning media into a form of ritualized computation.

Collaborating with scientists and technologists, Pauze works at the intersection of anthropology and speculative entrepreneurship, repurposing existing infrastructures as aesthetic and conceptual frameworks. Technology is not a subject in his work; it is a medium through which meaning is coded, encrypted, and redistributed. His research often navigates the entanglement of ecological crisis and hyper-acceleration, confronting the contradictions of extraction-driven economies while imagining counterfactual futures.

His films, situated between science fiction and systemic inquiry, function as speculative documentaries of the invisible architectures shaping contemporary experience. Mass, created with June Balthazard, constructs a hallucinatory narrative around matter and emptiness, where scientific discourse becomes a vector for expanded perception. Through dystopian fragments and mythopoeic speculation, his work gestures towards alternative narratives—propositions for post-capitalist mythologies and distributed utopias.

A recipient of the Artagon Prize, the Agnes B Prize, the ADAGP Digital Art & Video Revelation Prize, and the Hauts-de-Seine Prize at the Salon de Montrouge, Pauze has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Monnaie de Paris, FIAC, La Villette, Es Baluard (Palma), K Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul), and in biennials such as Taipei, Beijing Digital Art, and Chengdu. His films have been shown in cinemas and festivals, extending his practice into the cinematic realm. Recent exhibitions include Luma Arles and Centre Pompidou Metz.

Currently in residence at Poush Manifesto, following residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts and The Spur, Pauze continues to explore the image as an autonomous force—an algorithmic projection, a speculative infrastructure, a counter-fiction against the opacity of contemporary systems.

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Selected exhibitions

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2024

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- Le Nouveau Printemps, edition designed by Alain Guiraudie & curated by Clement Postec, Toulouse, France

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- Cosmos Archeology, at Shanghai Astronomy Museum.
Curated by Professor Sarah Kenderdine and Iris Long. Shanghai China

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- "Draw me a Bull", Solo Show, Gallery EXPANDED ART, curated by Anika Meier, Berlin, Germany

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- "Dissolved Time: Studies of the Past in Future - Anniversary of China-France Diplomatic New Media Art Exhibition" Meilun Art Museum, curated by Liu Lei & Tang Jin, Changsha, China

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2023

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- Insomnie, Curated by Yvannoe KrÜger, POUSH & Palais Chaillot Theatre national de la danse, Paris

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- Art Macau Biennial, "The Statistics of Fortune" chief curator Qiu Zhijie. Macao Museum of Art

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- Water Memory, Fluids futurs, Centre Pompidou Paris

 curating Alicia Knock and Marie Siguier.Paris

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- 37x Grand opening, curated by Hugo Pouchard, Dubai

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- AI in creative process, conference with Justine Emard & Nicolas Bourriaud, PCA Stream,Paris

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- Ordinal Alley, bitcoin 2023, curating Hugo Pouchard, Miami

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- "Sphère, code, cylindre", curating Delphine Ract Madoux,

 Musée Granet, Aix en Provence

 

 

2022

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- Arte TV, Twist "Art et soif d'ivresse" 

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- "After Party", Biennale Chroniques,curating: Mathieu Vabres, Panorama la Friche belle de Mai, Marseille

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- Portfolio #1 : De l'équation au mythe, projection/débat, moderation: Marion Zilio, Gaité Lyrique, Paris

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- "xSublimatio", exposition personnelle au Cube, Issy les Moulineaux (92)

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-« toi et moi on ne vit pas sur la meme planète » , curated by Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard, Centre Pompidou Metz

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-« Chengdu Biennale-Super Fusion » selection by Mr. Fan Di’an & Qiu Zhijie, Chengdu Museum of contemporary art, China

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2021

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-"Recomposer, des mondes pluriel", projection et conversation avec Hans Ulrich Hobrist, Luma Arles.

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- Sans relache, commissariat Yvannoé Kruger & Poush Manifesto, FIAC , Monnaie de Paris

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-Around video Art fair, commissariat Haily Grenet, hotel Moxy, Lille

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- Joie de vivre, Galerie Bertrand Grimond, Paris

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- Avalanche, commissariat Nelson Pernisco et Andy Rankin, Galerie Pal project, Paris

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-Watches and Wonder, H08 Hermès, Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, Genève 

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-'Dis] Play Off [Line' /  10 avril-30 mai 2021 Centre d'art les Tanneries, Amilly

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- 65e édition du Salon de Montrouge, commissariat Ami Barak et Marie Gautier, Beffroi de Montrouge, France

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2020

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- Biennale de Taipei, "You and I don't live on the same planet" commissariat de Bruno Latour et Martin Guinard, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

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-Art Paris-Art Fair 2020, Gallerie Eva Hober, Paris 

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- #20 d’accès)s(, commissariat Jean Jacques Gay, Centre d’art le Bel Ordinaire, Pau, France

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- Please love party, accrochage sur les cimaises  de l'ADAGP, (remise du prix Art-numérique art vidéo, Portrait sur l'atelier A de Arte), Paris

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-Lonely, Spaced in lost, Online, Commissariat Yvannoé Kruger et Filip-Andreas Skrapic

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2019

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- Festival OVNi, foire Camera Camera, Galerie Eva Hober, Nice. 

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-Artagon Live, Cité internationale des arts, Commissariat de Anna Labouze et Keimis Henni. Paris, 

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-Video Forever, Apocalypse now, exhilarating, commissariat de Barbara Polla, Galerie Analix Forever,  Chicago, USA

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-Panorama 21, « les revenants »,

commissariat Jean-Hubert Martin, au Fresnoy - Studio National, Tourcoing

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-Futures of Love, Magasins généraux (Créés par BETC), Commissariat de Anna Labouze et Keimis Henni. Pantin, France

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-Festival VIDEO VIDEO, Jean Conrad et Isabelle Lemaitres, Gallerie Bruno Mory, France

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2018

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-Le Petit Prince Meets Media Art: The Dreams and Ideals in Life, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

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-A Bigger Splash, Galerie PCP, Paris

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-Festival VIDEO VIDEO, Jean Conrad et Isabelle Lemaitres, Gallerie Bruno Mory, France

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- Festival Cent pour Cent, Grandes halles de la Villette , Paris,

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- C'est toi ou c'est moi, Fondation Pini, Milan, Italie

 

2017

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-FELICITA 17, ENSBA, Paris, France

commissariat de Joan Ayrton

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-Clips Claps, Caro Sposo, Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen, Paris

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-VIDEOBOX FESTIVAL , Carreau du Temple , Paris

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-The Spur, Museu d'art mordern i contemporani de palma, Majorques.

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-Electric night vol. 15 （2/4, 2/5）のご案内, Palais des Paris, Takasaki, Japon

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2016

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- Laureat Prix Agnes B, Fondation Brownstone, Paris

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-"Festin chez Trimalcion" (Atelier La Mine, Montreuil, été 2016)

commissariat de Théo Mario Coppola

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- VIDEOFORMES, Fotomat’, Clermont-Ferrand

-  Backslash festival,Tokyo data collective, Zurich
 

- Exposition «3D Trans», DNAP, ENSBA, Paris

- REPONS, proposition d’ABA, commissariat de Alicia Knock. Paris

- Exposition du Prix Artagon, passage de retz, Paris

- Projection, Yodh Song, LImousine, album siam road

   Bocalupo film production's birsthday, Commune Image, Saint-Ouen.

- Esprits libres, La recyclerie, Paris

2015

- Fill up my Wall, Galerie 92, Paris
- Exposition Prix Amis des beaux Arts (section Prix du portrait)
- Diffusion Tv MORAMORA documentaire 52 min , KTO TV


2014

-Call me, Paris, exposition collectives ABA avec la
participation de Danh Vo. Curating: Angéline Scherf / Anais Lepage

2013

-68 bis, Paris. Exposition collectives ABA, avec la participation de
Ange Leccia. Commissariat de Odile Burluraux

 

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