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Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel in conversation with Béatrice Grenier

Conversation Générale

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  • Wed 03 Jun 2026, 19:00
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Martin pleure, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
Jonathan Vinel, Martin Pleure, 2017, 3 + 1 E.P, Collection Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

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Studio Marie-Claude Beaud

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Porte Saint-Honoré

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Conversation in French, with simultaneous English translation via headsets.

A discussion with Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel as part of the “Conversation Générale” series of talks and debates. 

Renowned for blending themes of resistance and revolution with hybrid multimedia forms, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s films capture the anger, tension, and disillusionment of today’s generation, while fusing the aesthetics of cinema, the internet, and video games into a distinctive cinematic language. 

Featured in Exposition Générale, the short film Martin pleure (2017) by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel—made entirely using the Director Mode in Grand Theft Auto V—explores the loneliness and police violence experienced by a young boy. This film, which sits at the intersection of cinema and video games, addresses adolescent themes such as frustration and rejection, which are recurring themes in the work of the duo, who formed in 2014. 
 
The Fondation Cartier collaboration with Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel began in 2019 with the exhibition Jeunes artistes en Europe, which featured Vinel’s film Martin pleure (2017). In 2021, the Fondation commissioned the duo to create an original film, Best Secret Place, shot on the construction site of its future Parisian spaces on Place du Palais-Royal. The world premiere of the film was presented at the 76th Locarno Film Festival in 2023. Poggi and Vinel also co-authored the book Infinite Memory (2024), co-published by the Fondation Cartier and Lenz. 

“Imagine that one day you wake up and all your friends have disappeared. The friends who are supposed to be there are no longer there. So you search. You search everywhere. In every hiding place, in every corner of the city. In every pond, every river. You search, but you cannot find them.”

Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Eat The Night, 2024 (2)
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Eat The Night, 2024
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Best Secret Place, 2023 (4)
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Best Secret Place, 2023
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Eat The Night, 2024 (4)
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Eat The Night, 2024

In 2025, the Fondation Cartier invited Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel to lead a masterclass and screen their films Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe (2014) and Comment ça va? (2025) at the 82nd Venice Biennale. Best Secret Place is also presented at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini as part of the exhibition The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain by Jean Nouvel, presented at the Fondazione Cini as part of the Collateral Events of the 2025 Architecture Biennale. 

Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel

Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel

Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, an artist duo formed in 2014, create a “cinema of refuge” by weaving together themes of resistance, revolution, and contemporary disillusionment. They merge the aesthetics of cinema, the internet, and video games through experimental narrative forms. 
Their first feature film, Jessica Forever (2018), was presented at TIFF in Toronto and at the Berlinale. Their second film, Eat the Night (2024), premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Their short film Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe (2014) won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. Their works lie at the intersection of cinema and contemporary art. 

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