off-duty seraphim at DARMO
Join us for the opening of off-duty seraphim at DARMO in Paris
off-duty seraphim
Opening and drinks
Tuesday, October 20th 2026
at DARMO
16 boulevard des Invalides
75007 Paris
18:00 - 22:00
Exhibition runs till November 5th 2026
DARMO is pleased to present off-duty seraphim, a solo exhibition by the artist aurèce vettier.
Across most traditions and beliefs, certain entities accompany souls toward the afterlife and prepare them for the next cycle.
aurèce vettier gathers these figures under a single name, the seraphim, almost as a writing convention.
The exhibition begins with a hypothesis: should the wealthiest one day defeat death, these seraphim would find themselves without purpose, off-duty, adrift, slowly becoming something else.
off-duty seraphim explores this shift, and through it immortality, the desire to overcome it, and its cost.
seraphim training a CLIP+VQGAN model while monitoring the successful vertical landing of a rocket returning from deep space exploration
Pietra dura
35 cm x 28 cm
aurèce vettier's practice is built on tailored artificial intelligence models trained on the artist's personal archives, childhood photographs, dreams and memory. The resulting images leave the screen to be entrusted to the most demanding métiers d'art.
The exhibition brings together a group of exceptional objects: a cabinet-sculpture in bronze gilded with palladium leaf, a high-relief in bronze gilded in palladium, oil paintings, Aubusson tapestries created in collaboration with painter Vincent Gicquel, and a large ensemble of pietra dura works, the hardstone marquetry inherited from the Florentine workshops.
aurèce vettier’s work has found growing resonance within institutions. In 2025, his pieces were presented at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
At the crossroads of artificial intelligence and fine craftsmanship, it unfolds a narrative about death, permanence and matter.
A catalogue will be published on this occasion and will be the subject of a signing. A dedicated announcement will follow.
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