Vincent FOURNIER

Vincent FOURNIER

Space Project
Started in 2007, Vincent Fournier’s Space Project explores various sites linked to space exploration: Star City, Cape Canaveral, the Mars training grounds in Utah, and more.
Through carefully staged compositions, he revisits the dreams and collective representations of humanity’s journey into space.

Fascinated by science and technology, Fournier sees space as a mirror of human beliefs, utopias, fears, and hopes.
His photographs evoke both possible beginnings and extreme territories, inviting us to rethink our relationship with the world.

His images carry a visual memory infused with nostalgia for an imagined future — somewhere between universal dream and intimate emotion.

Post Natural History
This series reinterprets the concept of the “Cabinets of Curiosities” that emerged in Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries—collections of rare and wondrous objects. It attempts a cross-temporal expression that moves from the past into the future, and even beyond it. The imagined new species depicted are not mere fantasies; they are grounded in current research in synthetic biology and cybernetics. These speculative life forms, shaped by adaptation to environmental changes and genetic modifications, possess a certain plausibility.

Among them are a dragonfly with a delicate glass-like body equipped with a light sensor to measure pollution levels, an owl with wings adapted to repel predators, and a crow with exceptional memory. Through Fournier’s lens, these futuristic mutations and evolved beings are brought to life.

Above all, the meticulous and delicate artistry of these works is so strikingly beautiful that it invites us to believe in the fiction. This hyper-real, unreal world forms a stunning and intricate vision of a possible future seen through his finely tuned eye.

Vincent Fournier
Vincent Fournier is a French artist, born in Ouagadougou in 1970, based in Paris, graduated from the École nationale supérieure de la Photographie in 1997. For over twenty years, he has built a vast photographic body of work exploring visions of the future—both past imaginings and those we project ahead. His series delve into space exploration (Space Project, 2007–21), humanoid robots (The Man Machine, 2009–10), utopian architecture (Brazilia, 2012–19; Kosmic Memories, 2021–22), the reinvention of life (Post Natural History, 2013–22; Auctus Animalis, 2022), and, most recently, the flora of exoplanets (Flora Incognita, 2024–26).