Arthur Poujois (b. 1994) is an artist, writer, and performer based in London. His work moves between installation, embodied research, and live performance. Drawing on a background in fine art, philosophy, and body-based practices, he develops immersive environments and performative situations that reconfigure attention, sensation, and relational presence.
Arthur’s practice emerges from a long trajectory of negotiating language through and against the body. After training in painting at the Slade School of Fine Art (BA Hons), he pursued an MFA in Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art, where he developed a hybrid methodology in which writing, movement, somatic inquiry, and collective study intersect. His research draws from psychoanalytic and post-structural thought, meditation and neurodivergent perception, queer and postcolonial critique, and speculative approaches to the body as a site of knowledge, rupture, and transformation.
Recent solo exhibitions include Un captif amoureux (ZÉRUÌ, London, 2025), Impossible Translation (General Assembly, London, 2024), and Us at the End of the World (Sarabande Foundation, London, 2023).
His performance practice spans participatory, musical, and spatial choreographic forms, including FIT ME, a collective negotiation of bodies and relational pressure; Temperament, a sonic work centred on thresholds of tension, resonance, and affect; and Mind-Hyper, a spatial dance experiment examining hyper-attentional states and the instability of perception. Across these works, Poujois investigates structures of control and contre-rôle, exploring how sensation, language, and presence are shaped, disrupted, or reorganised. This research continues in The Dopamine Machine (2023–), a long-form project that interlaces writing, performance, and somatic inquiry to explore neurodivergent attention, fragmented realities, and the limits of language. Rather than representing perception, the work seeks to inhabit it and to reveal how experience fractures, amplifies, or slips out of sequence in the body-mind.
Arthur is also the founder of Electric Mind, a workshop series and research platform for neurodivergent artists, launching in March 2026 and dedicated to collective knowledge, embodiment, and experimental study practices. His work has been shown at Greatorex St Gallery, Kingsgate Project Space, RTA Projects, IZENA, Pipeline Contemporary, and in independent off-site contexts in London and Paris.
He is currently developing new performances and publications that explore attention, spirituality, and the politics of the sensory in contemporary life.
Recent solo exhibitions include Un captif amoureux, ZÉRUÌ, London (2025), Impossible Translation, General Assembly, London (2024) and Us at the End of the World, Lee-Alexander McQueen Sarabande Foundation, London (2023).
Recent group exhibitions include The Right to Protest, Greatorex St Gallery, London (2025), Funerals, Kingsgate Project Space, London (2025), Off-Site, RTA Projects, London (2025), The Archive of Lost Wonders, IZENA, London (2025), Situational Attempts, The Artist Room, London (2024), Ein Tir, Pipeline Contemporary, London (2023); Metamorphoses, Paris (2022); Potentials, 122 Minories, London (2022); Grotto, Ridley Road Project Space, London (2022); Selects: Vol.1, London paint club, Hoxton 253, London (2022); Synesthesia, Galerie Joseph, Paris (2021); Served, Lee-Alexander McQueen Sarabande Foundation, London (2021); Casting the runes, Harlesden High-Street Off space, London (2021).