Hugo Deverchère Explores Cosmic Memories

In the rooms of the Dumonteil Gallery in Shanghai, memory becomes a field of forces suspended between geology and cosmology. French artist Hugo Deverchère returns to China for his second solo exhibition, presenting a body of work that merges mineral materials, digital images, and cosmic archives in a journey that challenges the boundaries between art and science. Born in Lyon in 1988, Deverchère translates data, stories, and images into visual experiences that question our relationship with time, memory, and the invisible. Photo etchings, laser engravings, and light installations transform tangible substances into “permanent carriers” of a present that technology renders fragile and volatile. His method, akin to that of a researcher, alternates modeling and transposition, creating a continuous dialogue between past and future, recollection and anticipation. Deverchère’s works - already exhibited at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou Metz, the Palais de Tokyo, and MACRO Rome - reveal an imagination fueled by science, space exploration, and science fiction. In this poetic yet analytical universe, photographs, videos, and sculptures become prisms through which to observe the unknown, turning art into a journey toward what we have yet to name.