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Dylan Rapillard is a Bahamian-Swiss contemporary artist based in The Bahamas, working across painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, textile and kinetic art. His practice examines how island identity and the image of paradise are constructed, packaged, desired and consumed.

Moving between painterly surfaces, repeated patterns, found objects and improvised mechanisms, Rapillard brings together the natural and the manufactured. Shells, coral forms, tropical plants, seasonal fruit, gardenscapes, souvenirs and beach debris appear alongside resin, digital imagery, motors and discarded machinery. Familiar images of island life become unstable, humorous and occasionally absurd.

Recent bodies of work, including All Inclusive and Glitch Kitsch and Things Mother Would Like, explore tourism, consumer culture, labour, technology and the uneasy distance between lived experience and the fantasy of escape. Across intimate objects, large paintings and kinetic sculptures, Rapillard treats paradise not as a fixed destination, but as an image that is continually produced, sold, damaged and rebuilt.

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