Pierre Paulin (b. 1982, lives and works in Paris) is particularly interested in supports and media such as books, personal computer screens, film projection, film and digital cameras, posters, Compact Discs, PDFs, etc.

He perceives technique as a mechanism with its own history and intelligence, which he examines in order to shed light on the type of relationship to the environment it induces. In the 2011 exhibition “Des catastrophes et une histoire d’amour” [Some Catastrophes and a Love Story], he presented a series of newspapers printed in white ink, whose contents slowly appeared as the paper yellowed. The longer the paper was exposed to light, the more images were revealed; images that the artist selected from his computer’s memory, where elements from his personal life, chosen from the media and the Web, are collected.
According to Paulin, this eclecticism conditions our modes of knowing and communicating. In his last film, Tube (2012), Paulin writes poetry on his computer. While the text refers to different mechanisms, for the artist it evokes the situation of the person writing on a computer, who becomes the spectator of his own actions as the text appears on the screen: “I examine the generation to which I feel that I belong, in which individuality seems to be crumbling but is simultaneously surprisingly cinematographic.”