christian havet

MULTIDISCIPLINARY VISUAL ARTIST

christian havet

MY DNA

Building bridges, creating connections, and inclusion have become central practices in my life and work. Through various artistic practices, I examine the interrelationships between (living) beings, attempt to grasp their complex interdependence, and celebrate the life within and all around me. In these times of enormous upheaval, vital and urgent updates, as an artist and citizen, I wish to exercise my freedom of expression to participate and imagine new ways of co-inhabiting our world. Multidisciplinarity, interspeciesism, Relational Art ?

Who are we really ?

By attempting to rethink the relationship between artworks, creators, and viewers, I propose shared creative processes involving audiences, mediums, and spaces, preferably dedicated to health and/or spirituality... but all of diverse origins.

artistic manifesto

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JULY 2025 - Contemporary art, a reflection of our society, must constantly "UPDATE" its language to remain relevant in the face of scientific, societal, environmental, and existential changes.
Constant adaptation, the need to reinvent ourselves, is the very essence of our era, whose relationship with time has accelerated. The permanence of impermanence defines our contemporaneity !

Let's observe how the constant "UPDATES" of our devices, social networks, and digital lifestyles are transforming our humanity. A tension between technological progress and human well-being is growing, far from what the Futurist manifesto advocated in 1909 and much more in line with the words of Joseph BEUYS.

At the same time, we are experiencing the collapse of the structures of our society, and what we were long led to call "normality" is turning out to be a massive collective hypnosis. The dream in which we learned to conform, to obey, is cracking, but only to rediscover what we have always been and to "reactualize" ourselves humanly in the face of dehumanization.
We are experiencing a tipping point that the soul recognizes even if the mind doubts.
What is collapsing is not life, but the walls; it is a deliverance encouraging us to reprogram our way of being, our reflexes, our values, to create a new society.

For me, contemporary Art must offer "UPDATES" of consciousness, new ways of inhabiting the world.
We are not this body, nor our name, nor our past! ... but multidimensional TRANSMITTERS-RECEIVERS and
"Art is a language for reading and giving shape to the world(s)."




SEPTEMBRE 2000 - Globalization is generating both uncontrollable situations and the levelling out of cultures. True communication, which respects the fundamental principle of the circulation of ideas, shows us that there is a blind spot in all politics and pedagogy: the inequality of human beings in the face of the knowledge that gives power. Aesthetic emotion has become more essential than ever: the artist has nothing else to do but speak the TRUTH.

- Colors, with their specific wavelengths, speak to our senses through the interface of our physiological cells, which are both microcosms... and macrocosms...
- The impact of colors on our subconscious and thoughts is real.
- There's an interaction between energy, geometric shapes and our minds.
- All religions generate the idea of a Source of love and ... Light.
- I opt for the language of light! ...

Search for :
- The enjoyment of light; play on color, geometry and the thought it induces.
- The expression or harmonization of an ephemeral, invisible mental state.
- A painting of the interiority that must be familiar to us, just as we must let go of what's deepest within us.
- The success of touching the observer without the aid of words or discursive thought.
- The goal of research must lead only to clarity of thought, not of expression, and I remain convinced that the painter's work evolves towards the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, between the idea and the viewer.
By chance, I discovered that a Mexican tribal tradition, passed down for millennia and still alive, used the properties of colors and geometric shapes to help people…
For me, the future is linked to the knowledge of light.

christian havet

AN ENCOUNTER WITH OTHERNESS

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JIM is an eleven-year-old, hand-raised African grey parrot who assiduously follows Picasso's motto: "Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction." I met this character through an organization that helps parrots in distress. The pet trade raises major ethical and environmental questions. His previous life was complicated, with the trauma of abandonment. I decided to welcome him as he was: a semi-tame creature, sad but curious, gregarious and solitary, shaped by centuries of domestication, commercialism, and colonial history—as we all are, more or less.

De/Re/Constructive Art
As we freely share the same living and working spaces, our territories have become closely intertwined. Jim places divergent thinking at the heart of our daily lives. He also spontaneously intervenes in the creative process, which often begins with the de/re/construction of our habits, our beliefs... and our tools! Jim is a model for living in the present moment with vibrant sensitivity. His constant attention encourages me to sharpen my senses and suspend judgment to fully welcome what comes into existence. We are now at the heart of a process of mutual domestication. From our intense cohabitation was born the intention to integrate him into the creative process. It has become customary to respectfully allow as many sensibilities and singularities as possible to express themselves in projects and to co-create with and for a variety of living organisms.
"Art never ceases to be haunted by the animal."
Deleuze & Guattari

Naturecultures

Recognition of the close and interdependent connection between all organisms and their environment—the oikos—is at the heart of my approach. Following in the footsteps of Haraway, Descola, and others, I seek to decenter myself, to free myself from all dualism and binarity.
I am interested in the question of our multidimensionality. In my current work, I study ways of understanding other spheres of experience beyond categories such as species, ethnicities, cultures, natures, genders, etc. More specifically, I humbly explore:
- ways of accessing the sensitivity of other living beings, particularly non-human ones;
- its overlap and disjunction with oneself;
Didn't India, a pioneer, legally recognize dolphins as "non-human persons" in 2013? It is urgent for us humans to respectfully access other consciousnesses of the more-than-human worlds, and now to welcome those of our brothers and sisters in the stars!

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studios

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manufacture des arts

Studio and home, La Manufacture des Arts, 17 chemin des vivandes, Nyons (F)

Studio and home, 7 rue du roi doré, Paris 3ème (F)

Studio and home, Gleissenbach 7 Tiefenbach Landhut (D)

Studio and home, 15 rue Négrier, Lille (F)

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