Our senses are limited. Each of them perceives a fragment of reality. These few fragments are reassembled in our minds to form our own world, which we constantly misunderstand as being external to us, identical for all, and complete.
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Beneath and beyond our sensory perceptions, other realities are operating. Some of them have been revealed thanks to the technologies that enhance our senses, others are suspected to exist, others still remain unreachable.
Nevertheless, all these processes converge to transform energy into matter, then matter into more and more complex living organisms until the emergence of abstract thinking and, ultimately, into direct experience of spirituality.
Organized into 5 main themes, from OUTER SPACE, ELEMENTS, LIFE, DIALOG to BEYOND, Philoxerax’s artistic work evokes this amazing alchemy that continuously operates, here and now, so that our existences can take place.
Using only fractals as material, he puts them together, layers them and mix them to create new compositions that capture these abstract energies, these compositions of forces that oppose and balance each other continuously.
With this approach, Philoxerax invites the public to regain the sense of Beauty and the practice of contemplation.
FRACTALS
OUTER SPACE series
ELEMENTS series
LIFE series
DIALOG series
BEYOND series
MOTIONS
Motion 010 A – Two encounters – Encounters of any types fuel the mind. – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 12.2023
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Motion 009 A – Down To Virus – Light and space gush out of emptiness to host life. – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 09.2023
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Motion 008 B – Inside – Keep digging inside until you find colors. – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 07.2023
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Motion 007 C – Up To AI – From the Big Bang, stars, life, language and civilizations up to AI. – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 07.2023
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Motion 006 C – Chipset – How long do we have before AI makes all the decisions for us? – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 12.2022
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Motion 005 B – Still Wars – For thousands of years, war rises from its ashes to spread desolation. – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 11.2022
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Motion 004 C – Abyss – What happens in the depths of the abyss? – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 01.2024
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Motion 003 B – Good And Evil – Beyond all creation and destruction is an unchanging presence. – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 09.2022
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Motion 002 C – Stardust – At the very heart of life, stardust remains. – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 12.2023
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Motion 001 C – Cosmos Singularity – In order for us to be here, the cosmos is constantly balancing itself. – Created by P.Chevalier, music by N.Fauveau & JM.Plantey – not generated by AI – 08.2022
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FRACTAL PERCEPTION
Exploring Aesthetic Perception in High-Dimensional Parametric Fractal Systems
FractalPerception is an independent research program developed by Philoxerax, built on a continuously evolving corpus of high-complexity, non-natural images generated from parametric fractal systems.
It provides a structured framework to explore the relationship between generative parameters and visual perception — beyond conventional image datasets.
ABOUT
Philippe Chevalier (Philoxerax) is a French digital artist working at the intersection of art, computation and contemplative practice.
He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD) in Paris and began painting in 1990. To support himself, he also created large-scale murals in France and abroad. Working at this monumental scale allowed him to explore the mechanisms of color in depth.
As early as 1993, Philippe developed a strong interest in computers as a creative tool. At a time when computers were limited to 256 colors, he experimented with digital creation at night on a Macintosh II at Apple France and began creating his first digital works. From 1998 onward, he taught himself programming and became a developer, spending more than twenty years creating video games, websites and online applications. During this period, his artistic practice went largely dormant while he gained familiarity with computing through programming.
In 2020, Philippe returned to his artistic research. Combining his skills as a programmer and artist, he now works entirely digitally. He has given up brushes, pencils and pastels. The materials for his new works are mathematical formulas known as fractals.
From this work based exclusively on fractals, Philippe is also developing a structured dataset intended to explore the relationship between generative parameters and human aesthetic preferences. This research project is presented on this website.
Philippe has practiced meditation for more than twenty years within the Vajrayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This has certainly influenced his artistic work, which today focuses on the relationships between perceptions, abstract thoughts and underlying realities.
Although his medium is now entirely digital, Philippe seeks to reconnect his work with the long tradition of spiritual and religious art.