SMITH

SMITH is an artist and researcher born in Paris who lives and works between Paris and the Médoc Atlantique region of France. He holds degrees in philosophy from the Sorbonne, photography from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles, and contemporary art from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, as well as a PhD in Art Studies and Practice from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

His work explores the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the human and the more-than-human, science and spirituality. Through photography, sculpture, installations, film, and performance, SMITH has developed a practice that defies disciplinary boundaries, bringing together cutting-edge technologies (thermal imaging cameras, biotechnological implants, aerospace devices) and spiritual and embodied practices (trance, meditation, psychedelic experiences, and the subcutaneous implantation of meteorites).

His research examines how our bodies, traversed by spectral information, can become sites of experimentation and transformation. Working and dreaming alongside scientists, writers, astronauts, shamans, and composers, SMITH creates immersive worlds in which metamorphosis, survival, and an attentiveness to the ghosts of the present intertwine.