Pol Taburet

Born in Paris in 1997 to a Guadeloupean family, Pol Taburet graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. His figurative paintings fuse Afro-Caribbean spiritual traditions, European painting history, and the visual language of trap music and horror cinema. He builds each canvas through alternating layers — acrylic and alcohol-based paint for flat grounds, then airbrush for faces and bodies, achieving a misty, dreamlike dissolution of skin and form. Voodoo imagery, oral myths passed down by his grandmother, and the tension between the sacred and the profane shape every composition. Winner of the Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize (2022); work held in the Pinault Collection.