Born in Papeete (Tahiti), French Polynesia, Emmanuel Cuisinier is based and works in Enghien-les-Bains, France. Following a Fine Arts Masters degree and a Post-Graduate degree in Cultural Project Engineering in Paris, Emmanuel Cuisinier has worked as artistic programmer, exhibition curator, lecturer, guide and educator in various contemporary art centers, museums and galleries in France and Canada. Since 2004, he works in the Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, a multidisciplinary venue near Paris dedicated to digital arts and the International digital arts Biennial ‘Bains Numériques’ as curator and officer for exhibitions and publications poles. He also works as an adjunct Faculty member at the University Paris VIII and as a freelance writer for various French institutions and newspapers.

ABOUT HIS COLLECTION FOR ARTJAWS: “HEMISPHERES” 

“Hemispheres” evokes as much the idea of metaphysical spaces where we can exist and dream as geographic and biological territories. North/south, left/right, emotional/rational, real/virtual — the notion of hemisphere calls to mind duality, binarity, conflict but also transition. It is this shifting between two realms that frames this selection of works, observing what is at stake from the point of view of perception and the senses, questioning landscapes and nature in the age of technologies and even shaping the contours of a new poetic imagination through scientific knowledge.