Vincent Chevillon, Te Whare Hēra Laureate 2023 [fr]
Vincent Chevillon is the 2023 Te Whare Hēra French artist-in-residence. He will take up his residency in March and April 2023.
Initially trained in Earth and Life Sciences, Vincent Chevillon grew up overseas.
He then went on to study Fine Arts and a post-grad diploma from the Beaux-Arts of Paris, La Seine, in 2021. Later he joined the SPEAP (Art-Science and Society) experimental programme alongside Bruno Latour in Sciences-Po Paris.
Since 2014, he has been teaching Space(s) at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) in Strasbourg.
His research is based on several fields of study, navigating between anthropology, geophysics and iconology. His practice continues to evolve using collected or moodelled objects, images, and narratives that come alive in installations, digital artworks, and sculptures.
In 2013 he undertook a field research on board a sailing boat which wandered the Atlantic Ocean for seven months from port to port.
Vincent Chevillon is working on a participative encyclopedic platform since 2013: archipels.org.
During his time in Aotearoa, he will trace the movements of cetaceans found stranded on Te Waipounamu back in 1905 and which are currently preserved and stored in the zoological museum of Strasbourg. This project is called ’ A Lack of Hearing ’. This investigation is about experiencing multiple methods to better understand an environment, the elements that constitute it, that contain it, and the dependencies that link them all.
Following the wake of these whales is like following the course of a river to understand the tributaries. It is also like following the shore of the worlds and testify of the interactions at play.
Te Whare Hēra is an Artist-in-Residence programme for visual arts established by Massey University - College of Creative Arts in partnership with the Embassy of France in New Zealand.