Period 7 / 2013-2020
Aplatissement
The digital and technological revolutions have generated a new space, the Internet, on which human existence is replayed differently. Between physical space, human space, and digital space, the boundaries are being redrawn. Facing the screen opening onto the digital world, the body forgets itself, becomes absent, and allows itself to be colonized by the flow of images. Depth is evacuated in favor of constant flow.
Similarly, standardization begins beneath our feet with an identical asphalt surfacing everywhere, assumed to be reliable but breaking our relationship with the shifting earth.
Artwork
Nobody / 2013
Plexiglas, digital print of premium paper, 200 x 9 x 8
Between stroller, researcher, consumer, and communicator, the Internet user forgets their body, the unconscious receptacle of a multitude of data and images. This incorporation of the fragmented world, through wandering across the screen, has the effect of dissolving the physical density of the body. The title Nobody refers to the disappearance of the person, becoming nothing more than a surface reflecting scattered images resulting from a moment of navigation. The space-time of the physical body has evaporated, transforming the body into floating matter.
Portant / 2016
Installation of 9 suspended silhouettes, digital vinyl print, human-sized
This installation presents 9 anonymous silhouettes, suspended in space, individualized only by the outline of their bodies. Reduced to a membrane, materialized by vinyl, each silhouette is covered on one side with a jumble of circular images of different sizes, captured from international search engines (Google, Baidu, etc.) and on the other side with the respective codes of each of them.
Collectif frontal / 2017
Digital print on premium paper, 130 x 400
This frontal vision is a staging of a group of “digitized” anonymous people where both sides of the silhouettes are simultaneously visible. Being together alone, being connected/isolated, the presence/absence of these encoded/imaged silhouettes refers us to a “digitizable” humanity, whose interactions, whose”in-between” escape us. This “set” of anonymous people saturated with images (human incompleteness), empty of emptiness, is presented in a large white space. Like a sentence alternating codes/images, this “set” echoes the infinite ribbon of 0s and 1s of the binary language of computing.
Macadam / 2018
Digital print on Hahnemuhle art paper,
The Macadam series is composed of seven anonymous silhouettes. One of both sides is covered with an asphalt membrane. Impermeable and compact, this interface between humans and the vibrations of the earth is cracked by the interstices of manhole covers, which connect to the backs of the silhouettes, revealing aquatic flows.
