Lionel Vivier

Lionel Vivier is a visual artist based in the Avignon area. An art director, exhibition curator, publisher and dry stone waller, he has spent nearly twenty years questioning the role and the future of the image in art, the media, fashion and everyday life.

Lionel Vivier has been a record dealer. He has also done graffiti, created a clothing brand and worked as an art director. In 2016, he was art director for the album "Statea" by Murcof and Vanessa Wagner, released on InFiné. In Arles the same year, he took part in "The Hollow of the Hand", a poetry performance and exhibition born of the travels of PJ Harvey and the photographer Seamus Murphy in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington.

His work moves from drawing to video, from photography to sculpture and sound. Archaeology, cartography and stone serve as his territories. In 2019, the Ardenome in Avignon presented "The Great Escape", photographs, videos and 3D sculptures made with the duo Gourau & Phong. In October 2021, "Europa Europa" was installed at L'Ilot Sauvage in Niort, with two photographers invited onto the project.

From mid-June to 17 August 2024, Galerie Lhoste in Arles hosted the exhibition "Europa (to) Europa", shared with Guillaume Pascale. For Lionel Vivier, Europa is an atoll in the Indian Ocean, south of the Mozambique Channel. For Guillaume Pascale, it is a moon of Jupiter. Lionel Vivier's works dated 2023 and 2024 include tapestries, cyanotypes and screen prints on limestone.