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Aurel Porté
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Visual artist (mostly painter), living and working in the Parisian suburbs.

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Here are the first pieces in a new series of paintings. The images are drawn from photographs of ceremonial groundbreaking events, attended by entrepreneurs and politicians.

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Here are the first pieces in a new series of paintings. The images are drawn from photographs of ceremonial groundbreaking events, attended by entrepreneurs and politicians. The chosen moment is when they strike a pose, tool in hand. The aim is not to create a portrait—though the outline of a face may sometimes be recognizable—but rather to highlight a (im)posture and the connection between power and representation. To this end, the images are cropped and recomposed to emphasize gestures, clothing, hands, and tools. The painting is done on mortar, whose strong material presence contrasts with these images: pure moments of representation, detached from reality, parodies of genuine labor rarely shown otherwise.
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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In the midst of packing, I found some of my first paintings.
Created over ten years ago, they stem from my fascination with industrial ruins and the echoes of modernity.

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“The End” revisits a mining landscape that has been stripped (mostly at ground level) of many of its details. In the background, one can make out gallery entrances; to the right, a wagon and rails; above, the beginning of a ceiling dotted with bolts (elements designed to prevent collapse by holding layers of rock together). In the foreground, a barefoot girl dances, indifferent to her surroundings. I saw in this juxtaposition a kind of answer to the question: What should we do with this modern legacy? With this bygone era? What comes next? — Dancing on the past as the simplest way to turn the present into a celebration.
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Preparing to relocate, I unearthed a few paintings from my art school years. These works explore the traces of European mining and my early reflections on modern heritage.

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“Industrial light” portrays an old industrial lamp like those found in many mines. This lamp no longer illuminates but is illuminated (by the photographer’s flash). Some structural elements (beams) from the original image were retained, while the rest has become a timeless bluish background in which the lamp floats—a relic of a bygone world.
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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While sorting through old work ahead of a move, I rediscovered my earliest paintings. Made over a decade ago, they reflect my search for modernity’s legacy.

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“The cave” depicts a tunnel in an abandoned mine. The image is a cropped version of a flash photograph (an effect I chose to preserve). Through this motif, I wanted to evoke three dimensions of painting: Its mineral reality: Many pigments are the result of chemical reactions with metallic salts (iron, lead, copper, cadmium, zinc, titanium… the list goes on!), and there is no painting—at least not as we know it—without mining. Mines are astonishing places, both in texture and color; if you ever get the chance to visit one, go for it! Its historical reality: Painting (at least the kind that has survived through time) is intimately tied to the underground world—not of mines, but of caves, whose walls were the first canvases. Its epistemological reality: According to Plato, the painter is a producer of appearances, and therefore of falsehoods. In this sense, painting distances us from truth, contributing in its own way to casting shadows on the walls of the cave
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Another shot from my #studiovisit on October 3rd.

Pictures of my new works coming soon !

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October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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A few views from my latest studio visit on October 3rd.

More pictures of the new works coming soon !

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October 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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"The crime" (copyright Elodie Tribut & screenshot by Reporterre)
Drawing by Elodie Tribut of a dead bird lying on its back. Arount we can read "the spring will be soon silent"
October 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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If you're in Paris, don’t miss The world through AI at Jeu de Paume !

The exhibition is brillant and goes beyond generative AI hype.

Special mention to Calculating Empire by Crawford & Joler — a mind-blowing map of technological power.

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A close-up of Calculating Empire by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler. The map’s structure is meticulously organized, yet as you begin to read, it feels like navigating a labyrinth of information — where the exit (or perhaps the origin?) seems to be our own contemporary reality. A bigger view but still detail. The artwork is huge an takes an entire room
September 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The starting point of my mural project : a reference to “Saint John the Baptist” by Hieronymus Bosch.

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Indeed, in the foreground of Bosch’s painting, there’s a curious, fantastical, overgrown—and surely diabolical—plant. In the composition, it occupies a space as prominent as the saint himself. As is often the case with Bosch, the plant is an aggregation of elements drawn from multiple species. To my knowledge, this is the only instance in classical painting where such use of a plant figure occurs—and one of the rare examples of “base” vegetation (meaning: plants deemed unproductive for food or ornamental purposes) being depicted. If you know of any other examples, feel free to share them in the comments! Saint John the Baptist, painting by Hieronymus Bosh
July 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Overview of my mural project

The plants scale matches that of real street plants...
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Overview of the mural project “Incultures.” The plants are painted in acrylic using a technique reminiscent of watercolor. Their scale matches that of real street plants growing in the space between the sidewalk and the wall. As a result, the painting process takes place sitting directly on the ground, kneeling, or sometimes even lying down… a rather athletic painting experience!
July 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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"Incultures (7)"

A story of AI and plants

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Incultures is a mural project depicting invasive plants generated by artificial intelligence. These plants appear "bugged" because AI struggles to accurately generate them, revealing the limitations of the technology. This failure mirrors our own selective and incomplete perception of the living world. Painted at the base of the walls—like the weeds that thrive in urban spaces—these plants challenge both our ways of seeing and the growing influence of AI in visual culture.
July 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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A chosen fragment of a landscape glimpsed at 90 km/h, where so many once paused...

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Painting by Aurel Porté depicting a roadside embankment. The site is scattered with large blocks that evoke strange minimalist sculptures or a modern ruin. These blocks are in fact intended to prevent the settlement of the poorest populations. They are quite common in the Paris region. Here, they are rendered in a vivid blue to emphasize the surreal quality of the scene.
July 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I find there is a particular resonance between places dedicated to preserving nature—such as greenhouses and aquariums—and works of art...

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Perhaps because, like art, they shelter a small fragment of reality, seeking to present it authentically and protect it from external disturbances. Or perhaps because both the greenhouse and the artwork reproduce what we call nature so ideally that they generate a paradoxical energy—an artifice devoted to negating itself, as the very notion of "natural" stands in opposition to "artificial." However, in the context of ecological disaster, the image of the greenhouse invites further reflection: Will there always be a place for the living world we know outside of a glass dome? What is the meaning of celebrating life through images when life itself might not survive them? So yes, perhaps art is also, in a way, a small, separate ecosystem—where rarity is cultivated and the fragility of the outside world is gathered, calling for care before it is too late.
July 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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A painting that plays on our ignorance of living things, presenting a few wild plants gathered from a roadside embankment as if they were part of a jungle...

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This project is not just about giving visibility to an overlooked aspect of the plant world, which is often confined to botanical illustrations. Above all, it is a way to bring enchantment to everyday life at little cost—summoning visions of elsewhere from right here and affirming the porous nature of our world, where the exotic and the ordinary are one and the same, with the former merely being a fleeting moment of the latter.
June 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"Incultures (6)"

A story of AI and plants

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Incultures is a mural project depicting invasive plants generated by artificial intelligence. These plants appear "bugged" because AI struggles to accurately generate them, revealing the limitations of the technology. This failure mirrors our own selective and incomplete perception of the living world. Painted at the base of the walls—like the weeds that thrive in urban spaces—these plants challenge both our ways of seeing and the growing influence of AI in visual culture.
June 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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"Incultures (5)"

A story of AI and plants

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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #bskyart #artsky #visualart #figurativeart #artcontemporain #art #malerei #peinturecontemporaine #wildplants #weeds #sidewalkplants #ai
Incultures is a mural project depicting invasive plants generated by artificial intelligence. These plants appear "bugged" because AI struggles to accurately generate them, revealing the limitations of the technology. This failure mirrors our own selective and incomplete perception of the living world. Painted at the base of the walls—like the weeds that thrive in urban spaces—these plants challenge both our ways of seeing and the growing influence of AI in visual culture.
June 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"Incultures (4)"

A story of AI and plants

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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #bskyart #artsky #visualart #figurativeart #artcontemporain #art #malerei #peinturecontemporaine #wildplants #weeds #sidewalkplants #ai #contemporarytuesday
Incultures is a mural project depicting invasive plants generated by artificial intelligence. These plants appear "bugged" because AI struggles to accurately generate them, revealing the limitations of the technology. This failure mirrors our own selective and incomplete perception of the living world. Painted at the base of the walls—like the weeds that thrive in urban spaces—these plants challenge both our ways of seeing and the growing influence of AI in visual culture.
June 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A single stroke—coloring in, filling the void— And reality tilts into its own representation...

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A single stroke—coloring in, filling the void— And reality tilts into its own representation. An instant sealed in concrete, while through the media drifts the image Strange, rare, parodic— A depiction of labor without the laborer. Alberti’s window-frame, or Butades’ wall-painting— A question of absence. Who moves the frame?
June 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Untitled (2024, concrete block)

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It is common in French suburbs to find entire streets punctuated by poles mounted on temporary concrete bases, providing electricity and telephone service to residents. These blocks, mainly used near construction sites, are part of the visual grammar of urban areas undergoing renovation. It is difficult for an artist not to see them as a minimalist sculpture that has escaped from a museum or as a symbolic form—a contemporary totem—embodying the ongoing transformation.
June 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The representatives came to mark the beginning.
The first stone was laid.
The costumes, the roles—assumed.
The postures, the photos—taken.
"To build is, first, to stage," they say.

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Painting by Aurel Porté depicting elected officials at the inauguration of a major public works project. The officials are dressed in formal suits, topped with yellow safety vests. In the foreground, a wall made of the first stones of the future structure stands prominently. The painting is done on a plasterboard panel prepared with tile adhesive, creating a highly textured effect.
June 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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"Incultures (3)"

A story of AI and plants

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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #bskyart #artsky #visualart #figurativeart #artcontemporain #art #malerei #peinturecontemporaine #wildplants #weeds #sidewalkplants #ai #contemporarytuesday
Incultures is a mural project depicting invasive plants generated by artificial intelligence. These plants appear "bugged" because AI struggles to accurately generate them, revealing the limitations of the technology. This failure mirrors our own selective and incomplete perception of the living world. Painted at the base of the walls—like the weeds that thrive in urban spaces—these plants challenge both our ways of seeing and the growing influence of AI in visual culture.
June 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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"Incultures #2"

A story of AI and plants

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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #bskyart #artsky #visualart #figurativeart #artcontemporain #art #malerei #peinturecontemporaine #wildplants #weeds #sidewalkplants #AI
"Incultures" is a mural project depicting invasive plants generated by artificial intelligence. These plants appear "bugged" because AI struggles to accurately generate them, revealing the limitations of the technology. This failure mirrors our own selective and incomplete perception of the living world. Painted at the base of the walls—like the weeds that thrive in urban spaces—these plants challenge both our ways of seeing and the growing influence of AI in visual culture.
June 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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"Incultures #1"

A story of AI and invasive plants

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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #bskyart #artsky #visualart #figurativeart #artcontemporain #art #malerei #peinturecontemporaine #wildplants #weeds #sidewalkplants #AI
Incultures is a mural project depicting invasive plants generated by artificial intelligence. These plants appear "bugged" because AI struggles to accurately generate them, revealing the limitations of the technology. This failure mirrors our own selective and incomplete perception of the living world. Painted at the base of the walls—like the weeds that thrive in urban spaces—these plants challenge both our ways of seeing and the growing influence of AI in visual culture.
June 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Coming soon
Work in progress
A sight to behold
Arriving shortly
Project underway
Business in motion
Your region takes action
To eat until bursting
Become

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Painting by Aurel Porté of a temporary concrete massif. These blocks are used near construction zones to support electrical or telephone poles. In the urban outskirts of France, it is common to find entire streets where electricity and phone service are provided to residents via poles mounted on these blocks.
June 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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"The Great laundry" (La Grande lessive)

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A painting by Aurel Porté depicting a sidewalk being cleaned with a water jet. The sidewalk consists of several asphalt slabs, bearing traces of numerous past works. At the center of the canvas, a large puddle of water reflects an inverted urban landscape. In France, the Kärcher has been used by the political right as a metaphor for action in poor suburbs. This rhetoric fosters a hygienist approach to urban space, reinforcing the conflation of poverty, delinquency, and immigrant populations on one side, and dirtiness on the other.
June 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM