Pol Taburet

Pol Taburet (b. 1997, Paris) is a French painter and sculptor whose work combines Caribbean voodoo traditions and belief system with the history of European painting and the visual codes of contemporary culture. He studied at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy, where he received degrees at both bachelor's and master's level, and lives and works in Paris. His canvases — built from acrylic, oil pastel, and alcohol-based paint, combined with airbrushing — are populated by figures that exist on the threshold between human and animal, animate and inanimate, living and dead.

Central to Taburet's practice is quimbois, the syncretic system of beliefs and ritual practices originating in Guadeloupe, where African and Caribbean spiritual traditions have merged with other cultural and religious inheritances. This framework shapes the charged, mythological atmosphere of his paintings, in which spectral or hybrid bodies are rendered through a double technique: passages of dense, textured brushwork coexist with luminescent airbrushed light, producing surfaces that appear simultaneously archaic and fluorescent. Working without preparatory sketches, he allows forms to emerge through process, freezing figures at a moment of passage — between states of matter, between the sacred and the profane.

His first solo exhibition opened at Balice Hertling in Paris in 2020, before his graduation; subsequent solo presentations include Lafayette Anticipations in Paris (2023), the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin (2025), and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Madrid (2025). He was awarded the Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize, and his work has entered the Pinault Collection, the Boros Collection, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, among others. He participated in the 36th São Paulo Biennial in 2025.