Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-bains (FR)

The Materiality of the Virtual is a monographic exhibition project presented by the Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains in France. True to its approach, the Centre accompanied the project with a publication, offering me the opportunity to document a crucial moment in my journey: a technological transition aimed at creating real-time audio-visual works. This transition, which was at the core of my concerns at the time, found a means of expression through the CDA, allowing me to share an unfinished and evolving process through very recent works, screen captures, and a few texts.

The exhibition specifically explores the relationship of scale between the works and the visitors. On the ground floor, a large-scale installation consisting of 16 suspended screens dominates the space and the spectators. This generative universe stages the ambiguous relationship between a curious cinematic camera and unstable organic matter, trapped within these screens that open like portals to a virtual ecosystem.

To deepen this reflection on scale, the second floor presents "Ménagerie", a series of small-scale structural works that examine our relationship with technology and its ergonomics. In contrast to the ground floor, these installations invite visitors to approach the works closely, observe them intimately, and, in a sense, dominate them.

The exhibition also includes additional works documented below.

Related artworks

Collaborators

Magalie Leclerc-Casavant

Stéphanie Letarte

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Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-bains, FR
Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Remerciement: Pascale Cosse