Dylan Cote makes work that puts you somewhere between unease and wonder, and somehow makes that feel like exactly the right place to be. Based in Paris, he moves fluidly between installation, video and audiovisual performance, treating digital technologies not just as tools but as things worth questioning, poking and occasionally subverting. By night, he creates live visuals for some of electronic music’s most uncompromising names, including Ben Klock, Kode9, Bambounou, and Manu Le Malin. By day, he builds contemplative environments where techno-capitalist anxiety meets aesthetic fascination. His work has been presented at Nuit Blanche Paris, Gaité Lyrique, SAT Montréal, Mapping Festival, MUTEK, and the London Design Festival. In 2024, he released his debut EP, Antrela, on Syrinx Music, further expanding his practice across visual art and sound. He co-founded OYÉ, a visual art label uniting artists and designers around audiovisual practice, and is currently in residence at Le Sample in Bagnolet.
At Kinomural he’s showing Deep Planet: a hypnotic descent through infinite collages of Martian landscapes built from real photographs taken by HiRISE, the camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA meant them for science. Dylan Cote had other plans.
Assembled from infinite collages of Martian landscapes, Deep Planet becomes a hypnotic descent into a world where scale dissolves and geological formations morph into something fantastical and vertiginous. You stop looking at Mars and start falling into it. Mars has fascinated us since Antiquity: a site of projection, desire and mythology. Today it sits at the centre of renewed ambitions of exploration and colonisation. Mapping the planet serves knowledge, sure, but it also opens the door to its future instrumentalisation. Deep Planet ignores that logic entirely, turning scientific imagery into an unreachable space where imagination and contemplation win over utility.
