UNDAWN

UNDAWN is a hybrid project exploring narration and linearity in storytelling. This project tells, in a fragmented manner, a dystopian tale about the end of humanity as we know it and its transformation into Sylveon (a Pokémon whose colors have made it a queer symbol).

The story begins with a series of drawings that form the first chapters of a philosophical tale, but it also unfolds through various forms and collaborations. I invited various artists and a neuroscience researcher to engage with this tale, adapt it, and enrich the narrative threads.

❤ Something remarkable occurred, which I have dubbed the Undawn...
Undawn drawing

Undawn, End 1

2024, colour pencil on paper, 50 × 50 cm

Exhibition views, “tresser”, Jimmy Beauquesne, Omar Castillo, Alfaro et David Weishaar. Courtesy DS Galerie, Paris. Credit : Romain Darnaud

Undawn, Phase 8, Love for love’s sake
Undawn, Phase 7, Our Untold Stories
Undawn, Phase 6, I Told Sunset About U
Undawn, Phase 5, Happy Shitty Life

Undawn, Phase 4, Awareness of a Shadow
Undawn, Phase 3, Knight of infinite resignation
Undawn, Phase 2, I Promised You The Moon
Undawn, Phase 1, I feel you linger in the air
Undawn, Phase 0, Boys Planet

Exhibition view UNDAWN Fragment New York 2024 - View 1
Exhibition view UNDAWN Fragment New York 2024 - View 2
Exhibition view UNDAWN Fragment New York 2024 - View 3
Exhibition view UNDAWN Fragment New York 2024 - View 4
Exhibition view UNDAWN Fragment New York 2024 - View 5
Exhibition view UNDAWN Fragment New York 2024 - View 6
Exhibition view UNDAWN Fragment New York 2024 - View 7

Undawn

Exhibition view, UNDAWN, 2024, Fragment, New-York

Exhibition text by Beth Fisher ft Juliette Jaffeux
Exhibition text by Florian Buffard ft Juliette Jaffeux

Exhibition text by Beth Fisher, Florian Buffard and Juliette Jaffeux, 2024

Undawn — Phases 4–6 (vue 1)
Undawn — Phases 4–6 (vue 2)
Undawn — Phases 4–6 (vue 3)

Undawn — Phases 4–6

2023, colour pencil on paper, metal frame, glass, polymer clay, resin, 62 × 41 × 20 cm / collaboration with Shiteevee

Untitled (Flowers of Apostasy) — image

Untitled (Flowers of Apostasy)

2023, printed pattern on glass and wallpaper, variable dimensions

Exhibition view — Palais de Tokyo (3)
Exhibition view — Palais de Tokyo (3)
Exhibition view — Palais de Tokyo (4)
Exhibition view — Palais de Tokyo (5)

Exhibition view, Hors de la nuit des normes, Hors de l’énorme ennui, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. © Thomas Beauquesne.

Undawn (Domain of Stasis) — vue 1
Undawn (Domain of Stasis) — vue 2
Undawn (Domain of Stasis) — vue 3
Undawn (Domain of Stasis) — vue 4
Undawn (Domain of Stasis) — vue 5

Undawn (Domain of Stasis)

2023, metal kiosk — with support from Institut français

Exhibition view, 2023, BELIEVE, Tropez, Berlin © Ink Agop; © Joe Clark.

Undawn drawing

Undawn

2020, colour pencil on paper, 30 × 24 cm