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LANDCUTS: Under Development...

We're currently developing LANDCUTS as an immersive virtual exhibition
using Unreal Engine 5.5.
This project will transforms Rioux's digital cityscapes
into an interactive gallery experience.

Completion expected mid 2026.
Check back for updates on our journey to redefine digital art presentation.

Photographer Paul-Émile Rioux
started the Landcuts project in 2010

Each Landcuts is a virtual world, a Metaverse.

Virtual One, Rioux Montreal Digital Art Numerique

My interest: Our shifting relationship to space and place, and the way we think about the environment and nature. The Project: Take the viewer to places both inward and alien that could exist in the real world as well as in a virtual one. How: Mix and match reality with invention, through images that I construct and build using photography, words, product shots or 3-D models. Why: Disrupt our perception and to break free from what we know to be true.

RIOUX (2018)

Rioux, Suburb_3
50 X 65 in / 127 X 165 cm

"Rioux exists squarely at the center of the digital, or digimorphic matrix. His works have such an order of internal logic that we feel we should have seen their kin before. In fact, they have no antecedents, which makes their allure all the stronger and more compelling."

James D Campbell

Les palimpsestes Sémiotiques de Paul-Emile Rioux

The Semiotic Palimpsests of Paul-Emile Rioux

Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images.In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination. Through is truly unique approach, Paul-Émile Rioux is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance. Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future.

L’artiste et photographe Paul Emile Rioux vit à Montréal, au Canada. Pionnier en art numérique, il s’intéresse très tôt aux nouvelles technologies et met à contribution son expertise en photographie pour développer des matrices virtuelles d’où il tire ses images. Ses œuvres proposent des univers à la frontière de l’abstraction et du figuratif. Ces projections dynamisent le regard, l’invitant à déterminer si ce qu’il voit appartient au réel ou à l’imaginaire. Par son approche singulière, Paul-Émile Rioux est l’un des artistes les plus novateurs en matière de créations numériques et l’un des rares créateurs à conjuguer avec autant d’acuité recherche esthétique et posture critique. Qu’ils traduisent une urbanité dantesque ou l’horizon infini d’un océan turquoise, ces panoramas grandioses offrent une vision dystopique du monde. Ils interrogent notre attitude à l’égard de l’environnement et de l’avenir.

All Right reserved / All images Copyright © 2000-2021: Paul-Émile Rioux.

1: Surveying Landcuts

2: Immanent Structure

3: Of matters viral and vertiginous

4: Place and Non place

5: Combinatorial play

6: Dystopian Signifiers ?

7: Deleuzian Diagrams

8: The Braincase of the City

9: Synaptic Sojourns

10: A digimorphic Matric