Arthur Poujois is a French artist and writer based in London. His work builds architectures of perception in which an image is never encountered alone. The space around it affects how it appears, time alters what can be noticed, and a material carries traces of the conditions that shaped it. Drawing runs through the work as a nervous register. A mark records the pressure of attention, then becomes a score for movement, a structure for an installation, or the point from which another work begins.
His work often starts before explanation, through forms of learning acquired by the hand and through repeated action. Repetition trains the body enough for chance to enter. From there, one condition is allowed to alter the next. A mark changes the movement of a body. The body changes the reading of a space. The space changes what can be seen. Within the accelerated circulation of contemporary images, Poujois creates situations that ask the viewer to remain with this process long enough for perception to shift before meaning settles. He describes this as the pulse: a form of attention that persists by returning differently through time.
Poujois graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2025 and the Slade School of Fine Art in 2019. In 2026, he completed a University Diploma in ADHD at Université Paris Cité, bringing the formal study of attention and neurodivergence into work already grounded in embodied perception. He was a resident artist at the Lee Alexander McQueen Sarabande Foundation and has recently participated in programmes with Good Eye Projects in London and Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. His work has been presented in the UK and internationally.