God or the hiccup


Fundamental Elements attempts to define and blur the boundaries between the natural world and the imagination.

The process of creation begins with the application of various functions and algorithms to a program that transforms the mathematical procedures into visual information. From here the artist partakes in observation of the minute structures that were generated – almost as though he were looking through a microscope. He then concludes, not with an act of artistic creation, but by cataloguing the interesting elements of his novel universe in a method similar to the way a biologist might photograph a microscope slide.


In such (and it is impossible to discern to any degree of certainty whether these new worlds are more the result of the artist playing god or the hiccup of the mathematical programming) the works invite one to consider the relationship of the subjective to the objective and the role the imagination plays in organizing the hierarchies – and thus the shaping – of the natural world.

- Neal Rockwell
 
Paul Emile Rioux lives in Montreal, Canada.
He is fascinated by contemporary environments, and through his own chaotic and open-ended process,
he explores the inter-relationship of politics, consumer culture and technology.
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