SIMON VILLAEYS

SIMON VILLAEYS

Because imagining perfect worlds,
manifesting them into ours,
truly makes the world
a better house.

Because imagining perfect worlds,
manifesting them into ours,
truly makes the world
a better house.

About The Artist
About The Philosophy
About The Art

News/exhibitions:

– October 2023, Servivo, Palmela, Portugal
– July 2022, Giudecca Art Space, Venice Biennal, Italy
– November 2021 to January 2022, Biennial of Ceramics of Aveiro, Portugal
– October 2021, Passevite Gallery, Lisbon Portugal

About the artist

Simon Villaeys is an Afro-French artist who has travelled around the globe, lived in many countries and seen much of the Earth and its people. After graduating in Fine Arts at the Beaux-Arts School of Paris, he needed time to resume his creative work. This maturation period was completed in 2019 when he moved to Lisbon, where he finally returned to his passion. With his wife, he has recently bought a small farm in the suburbs of Lisbon and is currently working on opening a studio where everything is sustainable.

About the philosophy

Given the ordeals that seem to lurk upon Humanity, every creator needs to envision the power they have to bring solutions to overcome the world’s current crisis and push towards the golden age it has long awaited. Each one of us needs to reconcile with the true potential we hold within ourselves and start cocreating the world we really should be thriving in now. Let us unite our forces and nothing shall prevent us from reaching that goal. Search for the truth, envision the dream, make it happen.

About the concept

Truth, its definition, its very existence and the likelihood of grasping it in today’s world have been in his work early on. Simon thought recreating the world as he would like it to be might help him understand this one better, so he started recreating the universe. Verum Ipsum Factum, or “you only know what you have made yourself”, is the title of this body of work and is still in progress. It encapsulates drawings of galaxies, detailed planets in ceramics and photographs from beyond. With his creations, Simon plants the seeds of a new world within us, inviting us to become the cocreators of a positive future.