Erwan Sene

b.1991 Paris, France

Lives and works in Paris, France

The work of Sene is based on a sculptural corpus that extends over several levels and is composed in the future perfect tense. Letting himself slide along the slope of a multidimensional everyday life that he reimagines in all kinds of enigmatic tales, his practice reconsiders his own way of living and digesting the objects around him. He creates staging with a vast array of materials, between baroque remanence and day-to-day surrealism, and broaches the themes of language and science fiction. He develops strange ecosystems, a set of vibrant, dystopian and interconnected urban furniture that communicates through a language devised by the artist. 



Instagram : @erwansene
Email : erwansene@gmail.com  


Sene has exhibited work at Aranya Art Center China, Collection Lambert Avignon,  City SALTS Birsfelden Switzerland, Frac des pays de la Loire Nantes, Liebaert Project Kortijk Belgium, MoCo Montpellier, COUNCIL+ Berlin, Espace Niemeyer Paris, Balice Hertling Paris, High Art Paris.

As Musician he release his first album JUnQ on PAN (2023) and performed music in venue like Berghain Berlin, Nuits Sonores, Kanal Centre Pompidou and composed the soundtrack for the ballet Drip Tekhne (Choreography Adam Linder, 2024) at The Royal Danish Playhouse in Copenhagen.

Erwan Sene - JUnQ (2023) , PAN131

JUnQ, or the Journal of Unsolved Questions, is modeled on a parallel exercise: to sketch music and to score sculptures. Part exhibition, part book and part album release, JUnQ seeks to propose a collaborative language that binds the algorithmic needs of an artificial pop star to the performance of the artist himself.

The immersive project released by PAN represents Erwan Sene’s debut album and the multifaceted nature of his approach. Composed like a chorus of fantastical beasts, the album wanders atmospherically through a fogged wood. Sounds are never used for their default function–– they are sculpted, distorted and amplified, becoming hybrids of themselves. A haunting banshee, the monstrous growl of an Orc, Siren songs wafting through the trees–– these and more are recreated with sinuous violins, muffled harpsichord and digital instruments, culminating in a a vibrant “jungle” of sound.

Each page of the JUnQ book dives into the neon structures of Sene’s mutations: miniatures, models and ventilation details echo the micro-evolution of Sene’s “imaginary mundane.” Casting his contained biotope as a friend, rather than a foe, the fragmented view of these works imbues them with a sense of intimacy and primacy.

The JUnQ book features a bespoke type designed in collaboration with Marie Mam-Sai Bellier and Marine Stephan. Evocative of archeology and the imagined glyphs traced by lost civilizations, the type provides an (il)legible scripture to JUnQ’s multi-fold universe.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Mixed by James Ginzburg


1. Zones 03:19
2. Lowghost 01:57
3. Strange fruit 04:13
4. Echo When Talking 03:25
5. Smoke 02:51
6. Tilt 03:28
7. Mirama 01:46
8. Siren 03:37
9. Block That Kill 04:19
10. Black Out Bar 03:18