Jérémy Griffaud

Jérémy Griffaud created a series of watercolor paintings, which he scanned and digitally reworked to form the foundation of this animated piece. From these delicate, hand-painted images, he composed a flowing animation that depicts encounters between living beings—animals, plants, and humans—inhabiting an allegorical parallel universe.

Conceived as a continuous, looping journey, the animation invites viewers into the heart of a teeming, dreamlike world. Throughout this ever-shifting landscape, hybrid creatures swarm—part human, part animal, part botanical—engaged in repeated gestures and rituals. This cyclical motion evokes an eternal return, a reflection on the interconnectedness of all life forms across time. Griffaud’s piece holds within it the layered times of the world: past, present, and future, both lived and imagined.

This work is a variation of Griffaud's Under the Sky, originally created for his solo exhibition at the National Marc Chagall Museum in France in 2024.

Prolifération is part of the May 2025 program MO CAP, curated by Geraldine Erman.

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About the Artist

Jérémy Griffaud is an artist who explores the question of the spectator in hybrid realities, through devices that blend the virtual and the real. Using digitized watercolors, video game engines, virtual reality headsets and monumental projections, he creates immersive, interactive environments. In his installations Enlarge Yourself and The Garden, for example, visitors become performers, and the work's activation depends on their involvement. In The Origin of Things, visitors find themselves immersed in a psychedelic science-fiction universe that questions Man's relationship with Nature.

Jérémy holds a DNSEP option art (Master's degree), obtained in 2017 at Pavillon Bosio, l'École Supérieure d'Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Monaco. The public has been able to experience his work in numerous artistic venues, including the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice for a solo exhibition, La Panacée in Montpellier, the Four Domes Museums in Wroclaw, and the Wang Xiaoi Art Museum in Shanghai. Some of his artistic residencies have taken him to Norway, Poland and Malaysia. In 2023, he was awarded a residency at the Villa Médicis with the XR Farnese program. His Dungeon project has won two awards, at the Boden Film Festival in Sweden and the Emerald Peacock Film Festival in St Petersburg.