"Here, wide open"
SMITH’s exhibition from May 23, 2026 to January 31, 2027
Artist researcher born in 1985, SMITH navigates between photography, animated image, installation, sculpture and performance. His work is organized in open cycles, often initiated by photography. He undoes all chronology, moves the boundaries of portrait and landscape and opens a space where human, animal, vegetable, mineral and celestial kingdoms intertwine. His work is permeated by a poetics of metamorphosis, which extends beyond the sole register of reality, travels through the spaces in between, and inhabits thresholds rather than certainties. Forms slip, identities shift, bodies transform, perception changes its regime. From fluctuating states of consciousness, from trance to psychedelics, SMITH weaves a network of correspondences between bodily and cognitive practices and experimental scientific and technological devices, in search of a point of contact where spirituality is recomposed together, sensitivity and technique.
At MAC VAL, the artist’s works were presented in the collective exhibitions "Lignes de vies - une exposition de légendes" in 2019 and "Histoires vraies" in 2023.
The scenography of the exhibition is designed with the complicity of architects and designers Matthieu Prat (Diplomates) and Sami Rintala, assisted by Toni Lozano. The monograph "Ici grand ouvert" brings together old and new works in a great gesture that reveals the artist’s production in the light of his present and future questions.
https://www.macval.fr/Ici-grand-ouvert-exposition-de-SMITH
