Light Trap #5, 2026 / From the series Light Trap
100 x 120 x 7 cm 🐺 Light Trap Sous le voile, une bête retenue. Ses yeux remontent, le reste s’enfonce. Cette nouvelle série part de mon corpus de travail sur la meute. Elle est née sous le soleil irlandais, au hasard, inspirée de mes longues sessions de visionnage de pièges photo et vidéo pour suivre le loup. Ici, l’animal se tient derrière un voile, attend peut-être un soleil qui percerait et le libérerait. Tout être vivant porte la même quête : dévorer le soleil. Une intimité perdue, cachée sous la chaleur de nos paumes. — Light Trap Beneath the veil, a held beast. Its eyes rise, the rest sinks. This new series grows out of my ongoing work on the pack. It was born under the Irish sun, by chance, drawn from long hours spent watching camera-trap footage to follow the wolf. Here, the animal stands behind a veil, perhaps waiting for a sun that would pierce it and set it free. Every living being carries the same hunger: to devour the sun. A lost intimacy, hidden beneath the warmth of our palms.
Light Trap #1, 2026 / From the series Light Trap
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Light Trap
Sous le voile, une bête retenue. Ses yeux remontent, le reste s’enfonce.
Cette nouvelle série part de mon corpus de travail sur la meute. Elle est née sous le soleil irlandais, au hasard, inspirée de mes longues sessions de visionnage de pièges photo et vidéo pour suivre le loup. Ici, l’animal se tient derrière un voile, attend peut-être un soleil qui percerait et le libérerait. Tout être vivant porte la même quête : dévorer le soleil.
Une intimité perdue, cachée sous la chaleur de nos paumes.
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Light Trap
Beneath the veil, a held beast. Its eyes rise, the rest sinks.
This new series grows out of my ongoing work on the pack. It was born under the Irish sun, by chance, drawn from long hours spent watching camera-trap footage to follow the wolf. Here, the animal stands behind a veil, perhaps waiting for a sun that would pierce it and set it free. Every living being carries the same hunger: to devour the sun.
A lost intimacy, hidden beneath the warmth of our palms.
Details of my contribution to Revue Cabanes, Issue 2, Le Refuge
Published by @tilleulpublications
Produced by @teddpouteau
Quand la lumière se sera abattue, que les êtres resteront tus, il restera la meute. Au sommet de la dune, alors que le soleil se couche dans ses bras ensablés, les feux encore nourris illuminent les restants du village. Au loin se dresse une créature hérissée puis deux, leurs yeux ambrés étincelants, joyaux des morts. C’est elle qui dirige ce lieu désormais, ces ruines lui appartiennent.
When the light has fallen and all beings have fallen silent, the pack will remain. At the top of the dune, as the sun sets in its sand-laden arms, the fires still burning illuminate what remains of the village. In the distance, a bristling creature rises, then a second, their amber eyes gleaming like jewels of the dead. She now rules this place. These ruins belong to her.
Alongside the beautiful works of:
@alexisbeuss@apollineberraud_@kemantian@clementinedebray@delphineemgt@ethel.lellouche@xtrmgary@gillesraynaldy@jadd.hilal@collectiflamitoyenne@mgxlap & @freematporter@marie_demestre@raudpauline@raphaelmuller.design@sanzarou@w.a.r.o@theophile.narcy
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Faultline.
Médium, impression UV, vernis, peinture de carrosserie, opales multifeux
MDF board, UV-print, varnish, car paint, multifires opals
1/2/3/4/5 : reproduction à l’atelier
6/7/8 : la vie à l’atelier @sira
Thank you, West Cork, for the sun, the sea, and the cliffs.
Thank you so much again for this wonderful opportunity @vicopersson@albers_foundation@ecoleartsdecoparis
1/4/8 : Solargraphy
2 : Me working, thanks @lucinda.burgess for the pic 🌟
3 : My little desk with a view
5 : Cliff
6 : Me again thanks to Lucinda
7 : Small dandelion
9 : IR in the middle of the mist
10 : Layers of rock
Wandering and wondering around Ireland, and leaving this beautiful place this Friday. Thank you so much again for this wonderful opportunity @vicopersson@albers_foundation@ecoleartsdecoparis
1/3/5/7 : Solargraphy
2 : Stone circle
4 : Prison cove
8 : Heavy rain
9 : Stearing the Myross CSA, thanks Richie and thanks Patrick for the pic
/ Review – November 25 /
#8 Valentin Degnieau
Valentin Degnieau – The Watcher of the Depths, @artaisartcontemporain
On the occasion of his residency at the Albers Foundation in Ireland, Valentin Degnieau invites us into his world. He keeps watch over the grounded beings and the passages through landscapes. His work stands as a poignant and striking testimony, caught between issues of territory and the tipping points to come. Here, nothing is a dream — we behold reality in its most remarkable splendor.
“The unease of the night awakens us. There, in the depths, a glimmer flickers and guides us. The contours of the landscape dissolve, letting our doubts, our imaginings, and sometimes our fears emerge. Valentin Degnieau’s studio then becomes a cavern — a secluded place where ideas take shape, are tested, and put to the test. Countless collected and catalogued objects are preserved there, like fragments of memory. Images of wolves, print prototypes, materials in transformation escape and compose a presence both enigmatic and mystical. Between ruins and rewilding, Valentin gently opens new doors.”
— Pierre Duval
In progress:
Residency at the Albers Foundation
September – November 2025
Carraig-na-gCat, Ireland
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@val.dgn@albers_foundation@timothee.casilli
#artaïsartcontemporain @sylvieftn75 #valentindegnieau #ireland #albersfoundation #doubletrouble #artagon #contemporaryart #memory #ireland
