WHEN MY OWN PERSONALITY FORGES A NEW CONCEPT ALIGNED WITH OUR CONTEMPORARY LIVES
- Agnès MONNET
- Feb 7
- 3 min read
My art school training revealed a fascination with humanity and its inner complexity. My studies in psychology deepened my understanding of the psyche and perceptual mechanisms. My professional expertise as a graphic designer sharpened my aesthetic eye, refining my ability to visually reveal the invisible.
This convergence of skills, combining artistic intuition, understanding of psychological mechanisms and visual expertise, created the conditions for artistic innovation.
From an artistic approach to a more in-depth approach
Between 2020 and 2024, this convergence became an approach that I deepened. Four intense artistic years: more than 20 international competitions, 3 solo exhibitions, recognitions and group exhibitions in New York, Milan, Venice, Rome, Madrid, Knokke.
In France and abroad, the observation is undeniable. This approach reveals a shared condition that every viewer immediately recognizes: our complexity and multiplicity become palpable and are perceived universally, beyond language or culture. Our uniqueness, brought to light, becomes recognition, immediate understanding, revealing our authenticity and the universality of perception.
This international validation confirms a deep intuition: our era is seeking an aesthetic of authenticity.
But what is human authenticity in a world that is both tangible and digital, which I call the digitangible world?
In a world of controlled appearances and artificial, superficial perfection, the pictorial expression of human psychic intimacy offers a space of aesthetic truth that humans recognize as shared and synonymous with humanity.
So, what is the universal point of convergence that links the expression of human complexity, the dynamics of our inner worlds, and also the changes due to the digital evolution of our world?
So, what defines humanity in what makes it different from the machines it has created?
It's obvious: perception.
Perception was already an essential element of my artistic approach.
The method is structured around reproducible principles: revealing inner richness while placing the individual within their intimate and societal context. Art has the capacity to create thresholds and transitions that invite glimpses without forcing access, prompting us to question perception and its mechanisms. It also allows us to master this dialectic of the revealed and the hidden, which constitutes one of the aesthetic foundations of my approach.
This latter transforms the artistic session into a cartography of the contemporary human soul: the inner richness, our irreducible and shared singularities, our exceptional and highly contrasting psychic constitution…
By 2025, the evidence is clear: this proven practice deserves a complete theorization.
I then embark on a more theoretical approach to unveil the triple dimension of our contemporary perception: how we identify the other in their complexity, how the other identifies us beyond appearances, how we identify ourselves in this fragmented digital world.
Perceptivism is born.
It offers an artistic expression of these multiple perceptions, while revealing them.
Why the name "Perceptivism"?
Perception is at the heart of this innovation: revealing the richness of our contemporary vision, transforming our fragmented condition into a source of artistic beauty, unveiling the dynamics of human change that adapts and transforms in a slower time than AI.
Perceptivism emerges from this realization: to bear witness to the beauty of our multifaceted condition rather than pursue the illusion of a lost unity. This approach transforms what we consider fragmentation into a method of aesthetic revelation.
This formalization constitutes a step in my research which continues to evolve, engaging with the emergence of artificial intelligence which is transforming our perception of the world and ourselves, and exploring humanity and intimacy through the fragmentation of portraits.
Perceptivism reveals our time - the new era that humanity is experiencing: that of the Digital Man assuming his complex magnificence and his adaptation to new perceptual paradigms.
Explore this contemporary condition in my next article, “The Human-Digital: Diagnosis of our time”.
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I am Agnès Monnet, a French contemporary artist. This newsletter follows my artistic reflections and conceptual evolution around my work of fragmented portraits that question identity in the digital age.
My full manifesto is available upon request.
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