Joanie Lemercier is a French artist working with light, projection and code, whose installations extend beyond flat surfaces onto materials such as wood, glass, paper, ceramics, textiles and water. He co-founded the projection collective Anti-VJ around 2005 and has since exhibited installations at institutions including the China Museum of Digital Art in Beijing, Art Basel Miami, Sundance Film Festival and Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid.
He began VJing and projection work around 2007, and by 2010 developed a technique he calls reverse mapping — creating a still image first, then adding light to animate it — testing it on a piece about the Eyjafjallajökull volcano's eruption. In 2013 he founded Studio Joanie Lemercier with his partner, Juliette Bibasse, to bridge festival installations with the gallery art market. In 2016 he presented Blueprint, a collaboration with the musician James Ginzburg at the Saint-Merri church in Paris, built around a vertical monolith referencing Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and exploring the emergence of order from chaos.
