Pullman Tour Eiffel

In partnership with Artpoint, the Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel offers you the experience of digital art. Each month, discover the video artworks of four of the most cutting-edge digital artists of the moment on the sumptuous wall of screens located in the lobby. Find out more about the current exhibition here!

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Billy Ryan

Billy Ryan is a video and photographic artist based in Sydney, Australia. His practice is deeply rooted in a fascination with nature and its ability to evoke wonder, imagination, and echo the strange logic of dreams. Working across multiple disciplines, he explores ‘the unseen’: the ethereal realm that surrounds us, but often escapes perception. Ryan personifies elements of nature by blending them with threads of speculative fiction, childhood memory, and daydream. Through this poetic lens, he creates imaginative depictions of the environment that resonate with the human experience, generating a vivid interplay between the organic and the constructed. To visualise these hidden dimensions, Ryan employs the use of optical technology - a full-spectrum camera - capable of capturing light beyond the visible range (Infrared and ultraviolet). This expanded way of seeing renders landscapes in hypnotic and uncanny ways, offering a heightened perspective that feels both intensely hyperreal and strangely familiar.

Ryan is also co-founder and a lead artist at creative studio Babekühl, a creative studio transforming ideas into expressive visual worlds through motion and immersive experiences. From creating music videos, to taking part in the Pixels Show in Times Square, and being exhibited across galeries in Australia, Billy Ryan's unique artistic vision appeals to audiences partial to finding beauty in natural phenomena.

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Symphonies in Peach Blossom - Horizontal

It is often said that plants and flowers thrive when exposed to certain kinds of music. While this idea lacks scientific consensus, it suggests that stimulation from vibrations and sound waves may affect plant life in ways similar to insects buzzing, a breeze passing through leaves, or raindrops pattering on petals.

This series is inspired by the delicate, unseen relationship between nature and sound. Using visual displacement and spectrograms*, the works abstract a collection of botanical photographs taken over many years, some dating back to the mid-2000s. The spectrograms are extracted from a selection of my favourite 1960s jazz recordings, allowing sound, rhythm, and frequency to imprint themselves onto the texture of the image.

*Spectrograms are visual representations of sound, showing how a signal’s frequency spectrum changes over time.

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Hera Kim

Hera is the name of a goddess in Greek and Roman mythology. Hera Kim, an artist, has been fascinated by Greek and Roman mythology since childhood due to her name. This fascination led her to develop a keen interest in Renaissance culture through reading books and visiting museums. Growing up with a mother who is a German florist meister, Hera learned about flowers from a young age and became familiar with various decorations and crafts. Her experience studying in Italy allowed her to observe how Renaissance genres changed over time and how they have influenced people and contemporary culture. As a florist, visual director, and AI artist, Hera strives to embody the spirit of the Renaissance in her works. She draws upon her diverse interests and experiences to create pieces that blur the lines between art and technology.


In addition to her personal practice as an artist and florist, Hera founded Tinker Tailor studio, an AI design studio specialised in branding and commmunications. She has worked for major brands such as & other stories, SpaceNK, Target, Diptyque, Charlotte Tilbury, Lotte and more.

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Vanitas No. 10 - Horizontal

A floral symphony in motion—where timeless still life meets the pulse of modern artistry

Inspiration:
Inspired by 17th-century Dutch Vanitas painting, this series draws from classical still life traditions that explore fragility, time, abundance, and mortality. As a florist, I am particularly drawn to the tension between bloom and decay—the moment when beauty is at its peak yet already passing.

Desired Effect:
These works are conceived as a visual exhale. In a world that moves rapidly, they create a space where time slows to the rhythm of a flower opening. Warm light, subtle motion, and the quiet flutter of wings invite contemplation—revealing that even stillness carries movement.

Process:
The series begins with photographs of my own floral arrangements, reinterpreted through AI tools such as Midjourney. I reconstruct each composition carefully—refining flower proportions, light, texture, and spatial balance through multiple stages of editing.
The final stage introduces motion: flowers bloom, butterflies flutter, and the classical Vanitas is transformed into a living image.

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Vanitas No. 1 - Horizontal

A floral symphony in motion—where timeless still life meets the pulse of modern artistry

Inspiration:
Inspired by 17th-century Dutch Vanitas painting, this series draws from classical still life traditions that explore fragility, time, abundance, and mortality. As a florist, I am particularly drawn to the tension between bloom and decay—the moment when beauty is at its peak yet already passing.

Desired Effect:
These works are conceived as a visual exhale. In a world that moves rapidly, they create a space where time slows to the rhythm of a flower opening. Warm light, subtle motion, and the quiet flutter of wings invite contemplation—revealing that even stillness carries movement.

Process:
The series begins with photographs of my own floral arrangements, reinterpreted through AI tools such as Midjourney. I reconstruct each composition carefully—refining flower proportions, light, texture, and spatial balance through multiple stages of editing.
The final stage introduces motion: flowers bloom, butterflies flutter, and the classical Vanitas is transformed into a living image.

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smeccea

smeccea is a 3D artist based in Vancouver, creating dreamy digital worlds where nature and fantasy quietly intertwine. Their work blends soft landscapes, lush floral environments, and surreal elements into immersive visual compositions that invite calm, curiosity, and a sense of gentle wonder. Defined by an exceptional level of execution and ethereal aesthetics, smeccea’s visuals function as true escapist spaces, drawing the viewer into moments of beauty and serenity. A recurring motif appears across many works: rotating mirrors nestled within abundant beds of flowers. Striking through their vivid colors and meticulous detail, this surreal image carries a deeper conceptual layer, exploring an impossible condition of perception in the physical world: seeing without being seen. Much like the Impressionists, smeccea's works explore subtle variations (in color palettes, vegetation, movement, and the scale or shape of the mirrors), drawing out the individual identity of each composition.

Alongside their personal practice, smeccea has collaborated with a wide range of international brands and cultural players, including the iconic Vegas Sphere, honing a refined command of 3D environments and high-end visual production. Their commercial work spans fashion and beauty, including projects for Burberry and NYX Cosmetics; technology and automotive, with collaborations involving Apple, Adobe, and luxury car brands like Genesis and Hyundai; as well as music and entertainment, creating visuals for artists like Lil Yachty, The Chainsmokers, Kali Uchis and more.

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sunset lover - Horizontal

In this series, mirrors rotate endlessly, without explanation or purpose, suspended in lush environments. As they face the viewer, they reveal our absence from the work, a surreal impossibility allowed only by the 3D medium. Attention settles on the sky, the environment, the warm flashes of sunlight. Through continuous, unmotivated motion, this series establishes a calm, meditative space. The invitation is simple: be present in this moment of beauty.