Jean-Vincent Simonet
Jean-Vincent Simonet (born in 1991) graduated from the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2014 and now splits his time between Paris and Zurich. Simonet developed a practice that fuses traditional photographic techniques with experimental printmaking processes. His fascination with the materiality of images led him to push the limits of inkjet printing, often manipulating prints through chemical treatments to distort and reimagine their surfaces.
Jean-Vincent Simonet is participating in the fourth edition of the Reiffers Art Prize, 1000 milliards d’images.
Exhibition view of "1000 milliards d'images"
Jean-Vincent Simonet, 2025
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Jean-Vincent Simonet, 2025
Exhibition view of "1000 milliards d'images"
Jean-Vincent Simonet, 2025Biography
Influenced by his upbringing in a family of industrial printers, he merges digital precision with tactile interventions. Faced with the flood, the abundance but also the disembodiment of images in the 21st century, he aspires to revive their aura and their physicality.
Simonet has exhibited at institutions and galleries, including the Centre de la Photographie (Geneva), Sentiment (Zurich), Fotomuseum (Winterthur), FOAM (Amsterdam), Webber Gallery (London), The Ravestijn Gallery (Amsterdam), Paris Photo’s Curiosa and main sector, CentroCentro (Madrid), Salon Approche (Paris), Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), and the Centre Photographique de Rouen.
His works are part of various private and public collections, such as the Vontobel Art Collection, the Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne), FOAM (Amsterdam), Swiss Post, the Mirabaud Foundation, and the LUMA Foundation.