Artist Statement

I build systems that sense, draw, and terminate. Each system defines the conditions under which an image is permitted to appear. One reads the viewer's heartbeat through a wall and draws at the speed of a pulse it should not know. One depletes a finite graphite budget every time a body enters the room. One draws a public company register one building at a time, until an address that holds hundreds of companies becomes a single illegible mass of overprinted names. The systems run until material conditions force them to stop. What remains is not an illustration of the system's logic but a residue of a process that no longer exists.

The work operates within a framework I call Compliance as Material: art that absorbs the procedures of administration, the register, the form, the compliance document, and turns the act of complying into the material of the drawing.

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Bio

Pascal Piron is a Luxembourg-based artist working with computational sensing systems, pen plotters, and WiFi infrastructure. Since 2023, his solo practice builds autonomous systems that sense, accumulate, and terminate according to material constraints. Previously, he maintained a collaborative practice with Karolina Markiewicz (2013-2022), working across video, installation, and performance, with presentations at the Venice Biennale, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, and institutions across Europe and internationally.