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Born in Paris in 1984, Antoine Renard lives and works between Paris and Lourdes. He is currently pursuing a PhD with SACRe–PSL at Beaux-Arts de Paris, focusing on ritualized perfume practices.

Antoine grew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s within anarchist and eco-feminist communities, between the Parisian suburbs and the Pyrenean mountains, in a highly politicized environment shaped by free parties, electronic music, and psychedelic countercultures. After a decade spent in Berlin developing his practice within the post-internet scene, he undertook numerous research trips in the Peruvian Amazon, collaborating with Ashaninka, Mestizo, and Shipibo-Conibo animist communities, where he received teachings on master plants, ritual perfumery, and Amazonian cosmology.

His work explores the issues of trauma, addiction and repression by examining how individual and collective experiences are inscribed in bodies, architectures, technology, and systems of thought, and how they re-emerge in the form of traces and fragmented narratives. His practice unfolds through raw sculptural dispositifs in which matter and perception enter into close dialogue with architecture and digital infrastructures, and where the body appears as an interface. He brings together objects, materials, data, sound, and scent in the form of installations that question the idea of mental space, collective subconscious, and the psychology of industrialized societies. He conceives sculpture as a field of experience where the human sciences, mysticism and science fiction converge, and where vernacular knowledge and contemporary technologies participate in a shared gesture of transformation and interpretation of reality.

Recent solo exhibitions include DEMONS at Galerie Nathalie Obadia (2024), Trauma Queen at Galerie Nordenhake (2023), Psychobotania at the Cité des Sciences (2022), Amnesia at Galerie Nathalie Obadia (2021), PHARMAKON at CRAC Sète (2021), Geometries of love in Berlin (2019), 1999 in Milan (2017), and Peripheral Healing in Brussels (2016). His work has also been presented in large group exhibitions such as Power Flower (Biennale of Nice, 2022), Respirer l’Art (Musée International de la Parfumerie, Grasse, 2022), Futur, ancien, fugitif (Palais de Tokyo, 2019), and The Future of Memory (Kunsthalle Wien, 2015). He is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris and Brussels.