Prélude à Genesexus

With "Prélude à Genesexus: La communauté du sang," Valentin Ranger continues his reflection on the place of the body in contemporary societies, addressing the question from a physiological perspective. In the face of numerous upheavals in our environment, the artist questions the consequences these changes and mutations may have on the human body—and vice versa.

The video begins with the encounter of a flayed Vitruvian Man levitating, serving as the gateway to a world teeming with details where notions of scale and proportion completely disappear. So much so that it becomes unclear whether the artist is leading us into a spatial exploration or a discovery of our own entrails.

"Microcosm? Macrocosm? The tension between opposites is the driving force behind Valentin Ranger's surrealist narrative. Thus, one wonders if the beings encountered are angels or demons, if the moving spheres are planets, eyeballs, or cells; if all of this is total chaos or the result of meticulous organization.

The particular attention to transparency, iridescence, and reflection is the major tour de force of this work. An explosive big bang, followed by incessant flows feeding a network of strange characters, anthropomorphic flowers, and other forms that seem to have their own existence. The hybridity of the creatures is accentuated by the fortuitous encounter of mediums: 3D blends with drawing, the naivety of a pencil stroke with pixels or the sharpness of a digital form."
— Joséphine Dupuy Chavanat, 2021

This artwork was presented at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023); at La Fab, Paris (2022); at the Centre d'Art de Vitry sur Seine - Galerie Jean Collet (2022); and at Reiffers Art Initiatives - Studio des Acacias, Paris (2022).

Soundtrack by Ines Cherifi