Valnoir. Nether subject nor object. Possibly maybe one of those violent, dark revolts of being, directed against some sort of threat that seems to emanate from an exorbitant outside or inside, dejected beyond the scope of the possible, the tolerable, the thinkable. Valnoir stays close, but cannot be assimilated, and instead beseeches, worries, fascinates its viewers.

Valnoir. A coup d'oeil of the devil inside - misleads, corrupts, takes advantage and denies. Creates at the behest of death, kills in the name of art. The devil inside shows up in order to compensate for the collapse of everything between outside and inside, turning sin into living beauty, the demoniacal dimension of the pagan sight and occult sound, presenting to the viewers a gift of its void, carrying its horror, its full power into effect.

Valnoir and his design studio Metastazis have produced a tour de force of some of the most visually challenging artworks designs for a vast array of artists and musicians, from extreme underground music scenes, such as noise, industrial and black metal groups including Alcest, Amorphis, Arcturus, Behemoth, Blut Aus Nord, Laibach, Morbid Angel, Samael, Secrets of the Moon, Sunn O))), The Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, Ulver, Urfaust, Watain, and Led Zeppelin. An active NSK (Slovenian collective) citizen, Jean-Emmanuel “Valnoir” Simoulin is also a video director and has been involved with projects in cooperation with the North Korean State.
 

Valnoir · Paris · Hong Kong · Hades