Antoine Racine
Through my work, I engage in processes that shift, disrupt, and exceed my intentions. I facilitate the emergence — and persistence — of living systems, ephemeral arrangements oriented toward the plurality of forms of existence they include. My pieces generally take the form of installations where low-tech devices and unstable phenomena dynamically intertwine.
My practice cultivates patience and care, against the grain of extractivist logics. By shifting our attention to other-than-human scales, it seeks an ecological realignment. In this sense, the materials I work with do not serve as metaphors. They are nothing other than themselves — the surface of a mystery I seek to draw out, questioning the forces at work within them and the depth of our interdependencies. Thus, I strive to refine the attention we bring to the terrestrial world, amidst the rubble of our practices and technologies of absence.
For several years, I have been exploring the practice of composting. I attend to the ways it rekindles bonds between the dead and the living, through generative collaborations among humans, bacteria, fungi, and other tiny actants. My works materially engage with these communities of rot. They invite a sense of wonder, digging beneath abjection to perceive death not as a rupture, but as a living process to be cultivated.





