French artist Bernar Venet moves between science and artistic freedom, confronting matter with its own reality, defying gravity with form, and jolting the audience into the unexpected.

A pile of coal, a stream of tar, a mathematical formula... It doesn't take much, yet takes everything, to spark his inspiration. “My work begins there, not with some fantasy,” he says. A pioneer of conceptual art, Venet meticulously observes and analyses tangible phenomena. "My pieces are visual and physical thought experiments. They ask questions rather than deliver answers." This constant tension between art and science has become his own language. His lifelong obsession with abstraction drives him to explore the line in every possible state — straight, curved, or indeterminate. The result: striking, large-scale Corten steel sculptures, where order and chaos dance together. The goal? To reveal instability and unpredictability within a single equation. World travel also fuels his reflections on gravity and immanence. From Europe to the United States and across Asia, his monumental works inhabit urban landscapes worldwide. The dream spot that still awaits one of his pieces? “A desert. A raw, endless space, stripped of boundaries or landmarks. I imagine massive arcs left to bear their own weight, conversing with the horizon and the void.” A fragile balance forever flirting with collapse.