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off-duty seraphim is the upcoming solo exhibition by @aurecevettier at @DarmoArt during Art Basel Paris.
16 boulevard des Invalides, Paris
Opening 20 Oct 2026, 6 to 10 pm · On view until 5 Nov 2026 (1/5) 🧵

colloquium de pluralitate mundorum (momentum sequens), is contemporary cabinet-sculpture of curiosities born from a long chain of micro-decisions, from the artist’s own AI models and 3D modelling to an exceptional convergence of métiers d’art.

It begins as a hand-carved wooden maquette with 3D-printed, AI-generated inclusions, cast in bronze by the lost-wax process, finished in palladium leaf, and inlaid with two pietra dura panels. Each stage engages a distinct craft and the hand of a master artisan.

Behind concealed compartments, the cabinet conserves rare antiquarian editions, including Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, engravings by Olfert Dapper, and jewels made by the artist. The hybrid process behind it will be the subject of a forthcoming research publication.

Lost-wax cast bronze, palladium leaf, carved wood with 3D-printed inclusions, two pietra dura panels.

150 × 57 × 24 cm. Unique piece.
Photo: Paul Hennebelle

off-duty seraphim, my new solo show, opens tonight at @DarmoArt, during Art Basel Paris.

What if humanity had defeated death? Fewer souls would ascend, and the beings charged with guiding them would lose the very role they were given.

A thread
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Our work is featured in issue #89 of diid—disegno industriale industrial design, in David Bihanic’s article “The Other Intelligence” (Designrama section), now available in open access.

The article turns to art and design to ask what form of intelligence these technologies really engage, and it includes @aurecevettier collaboration with Vera Molnár, alongside the work of Philipp Schmitt, Samuel Bianchini and Éric Tabuchi.

This is an important milestone for the studio. The work is now being cited with real consistency in academic research, this article among several more due in the coming weeks and months.
To see a practice built from custom AI models and the oldest métiers d’art enter the scholarly conversation on its own terms matters a great deal.

With gratitude to @dbihanic.
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Secret Forms is an exhibition co-curated by Alexandra Kosslyn & Elaine Truong, opening at Galerie Vallois in NYC, encouraging viewers to move beyond boundaries and discovering a different world upon closer inspection.
The scale shifts and the magnitude adjusts. What appears to be one pattern morphs into the next. These forms are familiar in feeling, but can appear foreign in fact.
Four works by @aurecevettier are featured in the group show opening tonight, Sep. 9th at 18:00.
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