The Effets de Soir video series continues the artist's ongoing focus on nature, pictorial traditions and new technological devices. The title refers to the natural phenomena visible at dusk and dawn, when light and shadow and warm and cold tones merge into one another - an impression that many artists from Monet to Van Gogh have attempted to transfer to the canvas. Quayola builds on this heritage by combining natural and artificial stimuli to present his own "effets de soir". At the heart of his concept are ultra-high-resolution photographs of flowers in the lush gardens of the 10th-century French castle Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, taken at night under artificial lighting. The captured botanical compositions become the raw data for Quayol's computational paintings, audiovisual scores that experiment with different evolving compositions and rhythms. The artist offers hybrid visions of nature and the world through software specifically programmed to analyze and re-synthesize its components, approaching a new form of algorithmic impressionism.

Quayola uses technology as a lens to explore the tension and balance between seemingly contradictory forces: the real and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the old and the new. He creates immersive installations in which he engages with canonical images and reimagines them through contemporary technologies. Landscape painting, classical sculpture and iconography are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a starting point for Quayol's hybrid compositions.

His work has been presented and exhibited at many prestigious institutions around the world including the V&A Museum, London; Park Avenue Armory, New York; National Art Center, Tokyo; UCCA, Beijing; How Art Museum, Shanghai; SeMA, Seoul; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Ars Electronica, Linz; Sonar Festival, Barcelona and the Sundance Film Festival. In 2013, Quayola won the Golden Nica Award at Ars Electronica.

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