Morgan Courtois

‍Otherinhabitants

To mark the Cities Week of the Dubai World Expo, Art Explora is exhibiting the works of eight internationally renowned French artists. Exploring the role of ecosystems in urban environments, these works are being presented simultaneously in several urban spaces, both in Dubai and Paris, in order to share the World Expo's artistic program with the widest possible audience.

Morgan Courtois

Hybris, 2021 

Artwork presented in the Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre metro station and in front of the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo. 

Morgan Courtois

Hybris, 2021

Artwork displayed on Jumeirah Road in Dubai. 

Hybris is a flash of iridescence illuminating a hydrocarbon night. An electrifying aldehyde overload in the head. The appearance of a mutant rose in the humidity of a bitumen slick.

As part of the Dubai World Expo 2020, the Art Explora Foundation and IFF are presenting an olfactory work by artist Morgan Courtois, conceived in collaboration with perfumer Céline Barel. This work will be distributed in the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo, as well as in the Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre metro station on the occasion of the Autres habitants exhibition. 

The artist's biography

Morgan Courtois was born in Abbeville (France) in 1988, and lives and works in Paris. Morgan Courtois follows in the footsteps of those who, at the emergence of Art Nouveau, were fascinated by botany. An avid reader, he is passionate about the living world and botany. While he searches the pages of scientific works for the reasons for nature's existence, it is a poetic world of sensitive aesthetics that his works express. He received the Award Meurice in 2017. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Musée d'art Moderne de la ville de Paris (2017), Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2017), the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2019) and the Biennale de Lyon (2019). He is represented by Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris).

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Discover the works of the seven other artists featured in the “ Other Inhabitants ” exhibition:

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This project is supported by the French Institute in the United Arab Emirates, JCDecaux, the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and the RATP.

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