Fabrice Hyber
The Mutants of the Valley
Les Mutants de la Vallée
Schedule
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - Friday, August 1, 2025
Opening Reception on April 16, 2025, 6-8pm
Merging the worlds of art and science, L’Alliance New York presents the U.S. Premiere of Fabrice Hyber’s Les Mutants de la Vallée (The Mutants of the Valley). This exhibition—featuring vibrant watercolor drawings and sculptures that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination—originated more than three decades ago. Starting in the 1990s, Hyber has cultivated his own forest. Using 300,000 tree seeds from several hundred different species, Hyber has carefully sown seeds using a perfected afforestation technique. Hyber explains, “I sow trees just as I sow signs and images.”
Hyber’s deep connection to the natural world is evident in this exhibition. The collection features cellular forms, branching trees, hybrid beings, and arrows symbolizing infinite recycling. By repurposing everyday objects and using green as a symbol of limitless growth rather than rigid ideology, Hyber invites viewers to see the world as a space of constant transformation and reinvention.
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Fabrice Hyber
Since the 1980s, Fabrice Hyber gained international recognition as an artist, being one of the youngest recipients of the Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Biennial. Over the past two decades, he has exhibited his works in prestigious institutions both in France and abroad and has actively participated in significant international artistic events. In 2018, he was elected as a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
In 2023, Fabrice Hyber had a retrospective at Fondation Cartier, Paris, and a solo exhibition at Louis Vuitton Foundation, Venice. Other notable exhibitions include Raw materials at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, UK; Matières Premières at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France; Essentiel at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France; Nous les arbres at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, France, in 2019; La Source at the Fondation Carmignac in Porquerolles, France; Centre Pompidou Metz, France, and the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines.
The exhibition is made possible by Hubert and Mireille Goldschmidt.
Opening Reception supported by Champagne Pommery.
L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Header Image: Fabrice Hyber
Headshot provided by the artist
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