Qi Pan : Sur l'Architecture de l'Existence
Qi Pan: On the Architecture of Existence
Qi Pan means chessboard. A game shows its design only in play.
Every piece starts on a square it did not choose.
The rules were laid before the first move.
Life has the same architecture: fixed rules, inherited positions, and a freedom that lives inside them.
Yet the game is played, and each move changes the whole board.
This collection builds that architecture, one figure at a time.
Existence shows its structure to those who play.
Collection Statement
Every figure is a state of the game: combat, prayer, questioning, waiting.
None stands at the centre. The board favours no square.
Size marks a generation.
Within one image, figures range from twenty centimetres to three metres.
The larger stand closer in time.
The smaller recede into a lineage the eye travels toward.
One frame holds several generations,
folded inside one another like an image inside the code that renders it.
The figures are computed in three dimensions, then fixed in print or set to move slowly on screens.
Several animations advance one frame at each new moon and each full moon,
and take years to watch whole.
Seen whole, a lineage is one game.
Artistic Intention
The artist looks for the plan that existence follows.
He studies how traditions drew it, and how science describes it today.
He builds each figure in three dimensions, with rule and calculation.
He sets the size of each figure.
Most figures stand in near symmetry.
Exact symmetry belongs to geometry, and matter always leans a little.
A few figures are gold.
They break the symmetry and see beyond time and appearance.
The viewer stands inside the plan, like every piece in the great game of existence.
Le Libre Arbitre s'éprend du Destin, 2026 (autoportrait)
Free Will falls in love with Destiny.
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-33
Price on request
No one writes the first page of their own life.
We are born inside an algorithm already running. Memory, impulse, habit and limit are the board we are given.
Still, we remain free to move consciously, maybe.
Yet free will meets a destiny grand enough to fall in love with.
The freedom to love a path whose origin we did not choose.
धर्म (Dharma), 2026
738 × 300 cm / 290.6 × 118.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Digital animation with a slow dolly zoom, displayed on a curved immersive LED screen
118 frames, one advancing at each new moon and each full moon
Complete cycle of 4.8 years, shown here in a compressed preview of 1 min 58 s (accelerated 1,275,721 times)
For an exhibition, the cycle may be compressed to the length of the show
Includes NFC tag linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-34
Price on request
Where we stand decides what we see.
Dharma is the Sanskrit word for the order that sustains all things.
Every being lives by this order without being taught.
The world stays as it is. Our way of seeing can change.
One shift in how we look can show what has always sustained us.
कर्म (Karma), 2026
150 × 120 cm / 59.1 × 47.2 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-35
Price on request
Nothing we live is lost.
Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. Each act, each feeling, each meeting becomes memory.
Yet memory moves. It shapes each new day, and each new day reshapes it.
So a life learns as it goes.
What a life keeps, it changes. What it changes, it gives back to something larger.
Le Banquet de la Caverne, 2026
The Banquet of the Cave
245 × 200 cm / 96.5 × 78.7 in, each (screen and mirror)
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Digital animation with a slow lateral camera movement across a frozen scene, displayed on a flat LED screen
Flat wall-mounted mirror of identical dimensions, facing the screen and set at 90° to it along a shared vertical edge
120 frames, one advancing at each new moon and each full moon
Complete cycle of 4.9 years, shown here in a compressed preview of 8 min (accelerated 318,930 times)
For an exhibition, the cycle may be compressed to the length of the show
Includes NFC tag linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-36
Price on request
Time is a room before it is a road.
The cave limits what we perceive. The banquet is the conversation that lifts us out of it.
To understand, the cave and the banquet need each other.
No one sees a moment as it is. Together, we see more of it.
Eaux Primordiales, 2026
Primordial Waters
56 × 100 cm / 22.0 × 39.4 in, each panel
Edition of 3 + 1 AP, sold as a set of three
Triptych of digital animations with slow morphing sequences, displayed on three portrait LED screens side by side
98, 75 and 75 frames, one advancing at each new moon and each full moon
Complete cycles of 4.0, 3.0 and 3.0 years, shown here in compressed previews of 6 min 30 s, 5 min and 4 min 57 s (each accelerated 318,930 times)
For an exhibition, the cycles may be compressed to the length of the show
Includes NFC tag linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-37
Price on request
Every form was water first.
Throughout history, several civilisations have named the primordial waters, and each name points to the same depth.
It comes before every form and receives each one again.
At its surface, what has form meets the original chaos.
So nothing is finished there, and everything begins again.
Nothing leaves the water for good.
Égo ou le Plafond de la Matière, 2026
Ego, or The Ceiling of Matter
150 × 120 cm / 59.1 × 47.2 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-38
Price on request
An innate cage needs no lock.
The ego is born wanting only what the rules allow.
So the edge of the board is never tested.
Yet even a mind that sees beyond appearance carries its ego.
Ego is the ceiling of matter, and it holds even the free.
Le Grand Échiquier ne se sait pas, 2026
The Great Chessboard Is Blind to Itself
150 × 120 cm / 59.1 × 47.2 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-38
Price on request
A fragment takes itself for the whole.
Every piece defends its square, and each square looks like the whole game.
Yet the fight is one fragment of a plan the pieces cannot see.
The board is a system that makes the world it turns in. It does not know itself.
Anamnèse de l'Algorithme Vivant, 2026
Anamnesis of the Living Algorithm
240 × 107 cm / 94.5 × 42.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
74 × 33 cm / 29.1 × 13.0 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-40
Price on request
Whoever fights on the board cannot read it.
Anamnesis is the Greek word for recollection.
The first move out of the fight is to see it.
Catharsis De L'Immortel, 2026
Catharsis Of The Immortal
120 × 126 cm / 47.2 × 49.6 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 42 cm / 15.7 × 16.5 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-41
Price on request
Disorder is order seen from too close.
Catharsis is the Greek word for purification.
The Immortal is the eternal itself, and each mortal life is a vessel it fills.
The mortal acts on a stage and cannot see the whole play.
Yet loss turns into release, and pain into the seed of what comes next.
Mortality is how the eternal feels itself.