Romain Carré-Mattei (Corsica 1997)
Lives and Works in Lausanne, Switzerland
Romain Carré's work explores the idea of objectivity, poeticising the human search for a perception outside of itself. Rooted in a practice at the crossroads of art and science, his research touches on the foundations of knowledge, revealing the fragility of a discourse at the very limit of the observable world.
Romain Carré's projects encompass, without hierarchy, worlds, life, physics, realities. They form the pursuit of a Post-Nature, constructing shifting scenes and beings in constant recomposition, multiplying viewpoints and scales. A celebration of the hybrid, where continuity emerges between different forms of intelligence, organic and synthetic matter, living and inert, digital and fictional entities.
In this universe, narratives are non-referential; each agent participates, without overarching perspective, in a shared atmosphere. Romain Carré's practice thus seeks not to represent the world, but to replay its sensible experience — within a network where each thing exists through and with the others.
Romain Carré graduated in 2021 from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice, and from the Paris Observatory with highest honours. His work has been presented in Switzerland and abroad in several institutions, including Galerie du Crous, FR; Bissone Arte ‘22, CH; the Bonifacio Biennale, Corsica; the Agnès b. Endowment Fund, FR; Palazzo Ca’Tron, IT; the Regional House of Architecture of the Pays de la Loire; and Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, FR.
Education
2019 - 2021 University Diploma in Astronomy and Astrophysics — Observatoire de Paris, FR
2018 - 2020 Master of Fine Arts — Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, IT
2015 - 2017 Bachelor of Architecture — École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, FR
2015 - 2016 Preparatory Classes in Civil Engineering — École Centrale, FR
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Écotone, cur. Alexandre Pastor, Galerie du CROUS, Paris, FR
Hybrid Trophy, Salle Capsule, cur. De Renava, Biennale of Bonifacio #2, Bonifacio, Corsica
2023
Cosmogonies, cur. Non-Étoile, Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR
2022
A Post-Wild World, cur. Félicien Grand d’Esnon & Alexis Loisel-Montambaux, Montreuil, FR
2021
Universalis universi, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, FR
Selected Group Shows
2026
Jungkunst, cur. Nurja Ritter, Loana Lenz, Tamarine Schreiber, Charlotte von Engelberg, Winterthur, CH (upcoming)
Carte de visite, cur. Visarte Vaud, V V – Espace vaudois d’art contemporain, Lausanne, CH
Position Horizontale, cur. SCALA, Crissier, CH (upcoming)
Maison X, cur. Archives Sensibles, CHUV, Lausanne, CH
2025
Vidéodrome, Providenza, Pieve, Corsica
Galerie De Renava X Sotheby’s, Bonifacio, Corsica
2024
Sprint, Fonds de dotation Agnès b, Ateliers Richelieu, Paris, FR
Biennale of Bonifacio #2: Roma Amor, cur. De Renava, Bonifacio, FR
With Anish Kapoor, Laurent Grasso, and Mat Collishaw, Galerie De Renava X Sotheby’s, Bonifacio, Corsica
2023
E Se Domani, cur. Non-Étoile, Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR
Flies, cur. Alexandra Goullier Lhomme, Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR
Useful Fictions, École polytechnique X École des Arts Déco, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, FR
Promesses, Galerie du CROUS, Paris, FR
Zone Libre, Centre culturel Una Volta, Bastia, Corsica
2022
Festival OVNi, Hôtel Windsor, Nice, FR
Very High Stuff, Hangar Pellegrini, Nice, FR
Ne pas déranger, Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR
Bissone Arte ‘22, Bissone, CH
2021
Graduate Exhibition, Open School Gallery, Nantes School of Fine Arts, France
2020
It Means Haus, Marietta, Nantes, FR
Travaillerons-nous ?, Galerie La Cafet’, Nantes, FR
2018
Alterità, Palazzo Ca’Tron, Venice, IT
Evanescence, Galerie Loire, Nantes, FR
2017
Morphogénèse 2, Maison régionale de l’architecture des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, FR
Amorce, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Nantes, FR
Awards and Grants
2022
Laureate of the 2023/24 edition of the Galerie du CROUS, Paris, FR
Represented by Laboratorio Art Contemporain for the OVNi festival, CH
2021
Projection grant, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, for the production of Speedrunning a Unesco Site (2022), FR/CH
Residencies
2024
Non-Étoile, Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR
2023
Useful Fictions, Chaire arts et sciences de l’École polytechnique, l’École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL et la Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, Saclay, FR
Camini, Art et Noces Troubles, Erbaghjolu, Corsica
Non-Étoile, Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR
Teaching
2026
Sorbonne University, Master’s in Museology and New Media, Paris, FranceGuest lecturer
Fairs
2023
Focus Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Publications
2026
“Carte de visite” catalogue, edited by Visarte Vaud, curated by Renaud Defrancesco, Lausanne, CH
2025
“De Renava 02” catalogue, ROMA AMOR - La Chute des Empires, Limited edition of 500 with a unique hand finished cover, trilingual: Corsican, French, and English, 296 pages, texts by Prisca Meslier, Dumè Marcellesi, Basile Isitt, Diadora Dolfi, Léna Serru, Bonifacio, Corsica
2024
2024 Fisheye Immersive, La Revue #1, Paris, FR
2023
Supra-Urban Morphologies and the n-Body Problem, co-written with J. Fernández González (Harvard Graduate School of Design) for Testing Ground, London, GB
2022
Phasmes#3, edited by Jim Fontana, Paris, FR
2021
Quatrième de Couverture, self-published essay, Paris, FR
2019
René Hitimana & Simon Bouillère, Héliographie 02, Héliographie Magazine, Nantes, FR
Press
2026
24 Heures, “«Carte de visite»: exposition magistrale en format poche“, Alexandre Lanz, 01.06.2026
2024
Fisheye Immersive, “Romain Carré, un romantique au temps de l’IA”, Alexandre Parodi, 19.03.2024
Le Journal des Arts, “Une jeune Biennale prometteuse en Corse”, Anne-Cécile Sanchez, 22.05.2024
2022
L’Humanité, “Vidéo A Nice un OVNI qui défie les festivals”, Pierre Barbancey, 08.12.2022
RSI, ‘‘Bissone è un museo a cielo aperto’’, 12.09.2022
LaRegione, “Bissone Arte ’22’ e il villaggio diventa un museo”, 16.08.2022
U Ghjurn’Oletta, “Portraits : Romain Carré”, édition ‘Été 2022’
France 3 Corse, “JT - 19/20 - Corsica Sera”, 28.04.2022
Corse Net Infos, “Paysages de mémoire”, Philippe James, Bastia, 01.05.2022
2018
TTT Magazine, “Romain Carré : regards et visages intermittents à l’âge des réseaux sociaux”, Giacomo Baiesi, 24.10.2018
2017
Maison régionale de l’architecture des Pays de la Loire, “Morphogénèse 2 le sauvage et l’artifice”, Samuel Hense, 03.03.2017