Aurélien Lepetit (London / Amsterdam) currently explores the materiality of information, its storage and the externalisation of human memory through textile, sculpture, site-specific installation and text. He creates woven matrices and embroidered ecosystems which function as journals and material databases. Botanical knowledge, cosmological events and nocturnal data constantly transform as they collide to create patterns and motifs. He treats thread as a line of physical code which carries the information of plants that undergo multiple dye baths. Often disrupted by quiet glitches, his work approaches data as something lived and felt rather than abstractly stored and infinitely reproducible.
His artistic research articulates "Liquid Code," an alternative framework that insists information is always already of matter, exploring its transformation within water-based systems and its rearrangement through material interaction. He critically interrogates the politics of information, developing material-based alternatives to centralised data systems.
Lepetit’s practice has navigated within themes of labor and automation, situated at the intersection of visual art, philosophy and technical knowledge. Through his material archives, gestures and bodies deemed unproductive are made visible again. His early works interrogated the mechanisation and digitalisation of queer bodies and masculinities within gym spaces as expressions of Fordist ideologies. He later expanded into queer and cyberfeminist digital happenings, reclaiming cyberspace on productivity-driven platforms such as GoogleDocs or Excels. His practice shifted and slowed down to manually archive samples of lived experience where information moves through fibres, dyes and liquids rather than through immutable screens.
Recently (2026):
MA Non Linear Narrative (Guest Lecturer), Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), The Hague
Nature uses only the longest threads (Group Exhibition), cura. Lou Mo, Saatchi Gallery, London
Crossing Forms (Symposium), modera. by Federica Carlotto (Sotheby's), Saatchi Gallery, London