2024
60 images on baryta paper, 24*36cm, plexiglass frame, floor stickers, five channels sound loop.
“Turning Point” is equal parts obsession with a single movement and a poetic commentary on the act of image-making—or perhaps on living a life (you choose).Lignier undertakes the seemingly simple task of jumping and turning across a circle, aiming to land perfectly at the camera’s shutter. His tedious search for the perfect shot — where the gaze is right, the body is aligned, and the heel hovers just above the ground — offers a curious take on the decisive moment but also serves a surprisingly simple and apt metaphor for liminality, a space of change. Whether a response to the world or a self-reflection, this series sends you on a ride from a good laugh to anxiety, and back. The 60 images displayed out of 6,000 taken stand as a testament to photography's eternal promise to capture the ephemeral and a psychological portrait of our ever-pursuing, ever-unsatisfied human nature.A dizzying spiral with a floor instruction that has no beginning or end. Accompanied by a relentless soundtrack of triggering sounds, he prompts us to either join in the performance or give up to our own confusion. Lignier competes with the camera, plays with the audience and mocks the very act of photography itself.
Text by Anna Konstantinova
2025
15seconds video with sound, disseminated as sponsored content on social media platforms, visible only inside a geofenced perimeter of 1km radius centered on the Arles arena. Triggered by user location, the video appears once per session as a native ad.
8 billboards (176 x 240cm), red text printed on white blueback.
1/3 DIN A4 prospectus in a plexiglass holder.
Inside this invisible boundary, a fifteen-second video infiltrates social media: a sponsored ad. A gorilla enters the frame, stops, stands, stares. The signal activates. No walls, only a perimeter. It isn’t visited — it circulates, until the final frame. In this programmed apparition, something flips. Roles reverse. It finds its target and looks back. Outside the circle, it disappears. And as you leave, a sentence, on billboards, marks its limit: THE GORILLA NO LONGER SEES YOU.
Inside the arena, the animal spams to maintain its visibility, pushing it to the absurd: a hyper-presence. Its prey are always available, confined within the set limits. The gorilla does the dirty job: existing, showing its presence, maintaining contact, and more importantly, creating new ones. The tool targets perfectly, with the precision of a GPS and the structures of algorithms, stealing brain-time from a specific, predefined audience. The gorilla is the ambassador. The artist is the sponsor. In a context of pure visibility, existing becomes a necessity. The mirror is very close, almost human.
The gorilla sells nothing but presence — and that’s enough. Like in those feeds where the image must appear daily, like in this city obsessed with framing. The gorilla finds you. THE GORILLA SEES YOU.
2024
16 blocks : 90*90*225cm, Wood, Blueback
Contract : A4 Laser print and hand writting
Selfportrait : 100*191cm Baryta print mounted on aluminium and framed
Through Wink Piece, Lignier elicits reflection and dialogue on the nature of human connection in our increasingly digitized world. He asks us to review the authenticity of our interactions, inviting us to consider how we behave online. The artist does not seek to criticize virtual interaction but rather to challenge it or the individual user-by encouraging reflection on how each of us navigates social media and networking platforms: how do we act online? And, as a result,how does our behavior change offline? ls it the tools or our behavior that sets the tone? Who is pulling the strings that determine our actions? And finally, what does what we see in our feeds say about us?
Text by Georgina Casparis
2024
Mono Channel video with sound
00:00:04 loop
We are consummer of content in a world where algorithms shape what we see. We are immersed in endless cycles of images and videos that, like this repeated phrase, trap us in echo chambers. The algorithm creates a personalized experience, but this personalization leads to a repetition that prevents new ideas from emerging. The viewer, caught in this algorithmic loop, gradually loses the ability to discern the beginning or end of information.The video illustrates this reality: a good algorithm, on the surface, appears to offer us relevant content, but it ultimately traps us in repetitive cycles, where the line between essential and superficial fades away.
2023
Amazon safe, drill, analog paper framed
Variable dimension
Various Gorilla Suits
Eleven prints and one mirror
Inkjet Glossy Print
Chrome framed
24*30cm
Primitive Action
Site specific video performance
Video looped with sound
00:06:14
Beamer, screen, loud speakers
Dog Stereo Cat
Performance
Duration: 3:28:20
Flightcase, slideshow, microphone, speakers, amplifier, beamer
Container
White box, neons, plinth, book, screens, speakers
Book
White Cell
18x24cm
1498 pages
Videos looped with sound
AAAAH : 00:30:00
Blackdot : 00:06:27
Eye Cleaning : 00:04:26
Text by Bruno Ceschel
2022
Colony of ants (Messor Barbarus), Plexiglass Box, print on edible paper and ink, water, seeds.61*45*6cm