Adrien Vel, born in 1984, is a multidisciplinary visual and sound artist. His hybrid works borrow from animation, experimental film, video games, surrealist and expressionist painting, and focus on themes linked to the psychology of the unconscious. This approach is explained by a desire to put into images the unconscious processes that constitute the deep structure of our mind. His work revolves around various themes: the architecture of the unconscious / synchronicity / the shadow / water as a metaphor for the psyche / confrontation between organic and artificial intelligence. He is influenced by Jean Cocteau, Leonora Carrington, David Lynch, Francis Bacon, Kyochi Kurosawa, Jan Svankmeier, Chantal Akerman, Bill Viola, Sophie Calle and Carl Gustav Jung. He is also a musician with the drone/experimental music project Paratethys and co-founder of the Fraktal0.0 collective in Berlin, which organizes the events Technocene Digital and BWater.
“A comet crashed into Earth and opened a rift, cracking the ground. Water rushed in, drawing with it thousands of memories forming a cascade of inner images. The mingled images became dreams, and beneath the ground, a world of depths was created.”
