06/10/2026
off-duty seraphim
A solo exhibition by aurèce vettier
Opening reception
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
6pm – 10pm
Exhibition dates
October 21 – November 5, 2026
Open daily by appointment
16 boulevard des Invalides, 75007 Paris
RSVP required
What if humanity had defeated death?
If fewer souls ascended, what would become of the beings charged with guiding them? off-duty seraphim begins with this hypothesis.
Released from their duty, the seraphim descend into the world they once watched from above. They linger in forests and familiar places, witnessing the intimate and the catastrophic alike. Two moons rise together in the sky: nothing has visibly changed, yet something, somewhere, has shifted.
The exhibition brings together pietra dura, tapestries, oil paintings, bronze and sculpture. Each work begins with artificial intelligence models trained by aurèce vettier on his own archives, before being translated into matter through traditional métiers d’art. Durable materials are asked to hold what cannot last: smoke, clouds, comets and bodies made of light and computer code.
Death gives shape to things. It makes time perceptible and lends weight to what comes before it. These seraphim return to the finite, leaving us with a quiet task: to look again at the world we have.
Claudia Piovan