Lucien Murat (born 1986 Ploemeur) is a Paris based artist who is a graduate from Central Saint Martins in London.
Using a technique of sewn patches, textures and found tapestries he has brought to life a personal mythology allowing him to question and explore the post Internet world.In this new body of works he interrogates the relationship between human beings and nature and especially the dereliction of a living environment where humanity could strive.
In close partnership with an AI scientist, Victor Rambaud, they have enginered an AI, which once fed and trained with a cluster of textures found in Murat’s previous works, is capable of creating a textured variation of any image or picture of nature given to the program. The AI generate images of a derelict nature that looks petrified and powder like, where any trace of life has vanished.
Murat’s work offers the viewer an uneasy glance in to a dystopic near future where the impact of human activities have modified the climate and the ecosystems, endangering our very existence. Murat confronts the viewer with an undeniable truth of a dying world.
Murat has been widely exhibited in France in both solo and group exhibitions, including in institutions such as CAC Meymac, FRAC Bordeaux, Musée de Soissons, MIAM, Musée de Rochechouart amongst many others. He has also been exhibited internationally in the US, Germany, Belgium and Italy.