Mutation

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.