If the odyssey and the infinite have no limits—no horizon—then man—or rather, the thought that inhabits him—has no other purpose, in traversing them, than to be lost within. But far from being an intrinsic reason, this loss is merely a brilliant consequence. Beyond all mystery, could there not still be something to find, something to uncover in the name of humanity or the survival of the species?

For François Vautier, what must be discovered is a place—a space shaped by the biblical imagery of the lost paradise, a kind of extraordinary Eden where nature would once again have its rights. Lushness, immensity, original forms of enhanced living beings…

Remaining faithful to the theme of evolution, the artist imagines a place devoid of all notions of evil and affliction, where man, transhumanized and freed from his belligerent nature, might finally have a place.

Transmission, transfiguration, mutation… The human being is in no way exempt from evolution. François Vautier envisions the individual as a kind of hyphen, a passing entity. He too, within his environment, has been, is, and will be.

Since his existence in primary form, he has never stopped evolving—first physically, becoming something other than the animal he once was, but more importantly, intellectually. Over time, he has pulled away from his instincts to become an individual endowed with thought.

It is this thought, in perpetual motion, that François Vautier captures in his work. For him, beyond the human being—whose physical shell will inevitably decline and transform—a thought will remain. This thought will travel through space and time, absorbing every place it crosses and extending infinitely by growing from them.

In François Vautier’s work, the phenomenon of mutation is to be seen as a perpetual and transitory motion. In this non-temporality, nothing ever truly stops. The artist’s aspiration is to make the idea of metamorphosis tangible—ad vitam. Everything continues and will continue.

Evolution does not pause. Forms change, lines shift, materials are transformed without ever freezing; the mind—or that which relates to the impalpable soul—expands. There is a before, a during, an after, and then an after-after. In an unfathomable expanse where the possible meets the uncertain, the notion of mutation merges with that of infinity.

What interests François Vautier, beyond transfigurations, is the perpetual transmission of form—not form itself.

The very word carries the idea of journey or wandering. One must add the notion of motion, of a long-haul voyage. The odyssey is a movement whose destination is distant, undefined, even blurred. It is also an adventure imagined as singular, unique—because it is ultimate.

In this perspective, François Vautier discerns the imminence of danger, of a trial from which one cannot return unchanged. The journey is not without risk. In its very essence, it foretells a possible change—either formal or spiritual.

It is upon this transformation that the artist unfolds his work. There is a departure, an impulse, an arrival. And in the interstice between these temporalities, it is always metamorphosis that is sought.

What must first be understood when François Vautier speaks of evolution is the echo of chaos it generates. A litany of upheaval that leads to overwhelming overflow. At the core of his work, the artist begins by fixing a triggering element—sometimes trivial or accidental, but strangely inevitable. A flash, a collision, an accident. Then, very quickly, through a logic of events revealing themselves either in layers or in variations, he reconstructs the disorder he has initiated.

It is from chaos that life is born. And this life will create another life after it—both new and familiar. In François Vautier’s vision, the idea of continuation merges with transformation. From the mineral to the most organic, the concept constantly mutates to give rise to a form enhanced from within itself.

Infinity conceives of no limit, no border, no wall to bypass—for those, like François Vautier, determined to explore it with passion. Through the prism of a boundless fascination—just like the concept itself—he embraces infinity as a vast field of experimentation, a space for recomposition.

It is precisely in this place, fixed in both space and time, that he has chosen to unfold his meta-dimensional universe. In a proposition rooted in mental experience, François Vautier invites us to cross spaces, shift scales, and expand into other perceptions.

By playing with norms and dimensions, he beckons toward the extraordinarily vast or the monstrously small, awakening in those who follow him a deep hunger for a unique map: one of the soul or of thought.