Don't be such a square!
Kinetic installation
“Don't be such a square!“ is the story of a black square who refuses to be a square and tries to exist beyond its mathematical definition. Framed by a white border, it nevertheless tries to stress its four corners in order to deform itself. The square has been realised with a metallic structure and an extensible black textile on top of it. Behind the frame are four motors that are connected to the angles in order to deform the square in any possible ways.
“Nous ne sommes pas le nombre que nous croyons être“
Cité internationale des Arts, Paris 2018
Photo credits: Florent Levillain
HOMMAGE
Site specific light installation
Hommage is a light installation that has been presented at the Symposion Lindabrunn, in Austria, in September 2017. This big cabinet used to be a server, where in every window a monitor could be found. Over the years, it got more and more damaged through vandalism. With this light installation, I wanted to show a trace of the datas that had been previously stored in this furniture. The installation alternates randomly between beeing lighted up by leds and then turned off, where the phosphorescent forms become then visible, as if there were some floating code in the dark.
Symposion Lindabrunn, Austria - 2017 / 5,50 m x 2,50 m x 80 cm
Photo credits: Leo Schatzl
ANONYM
Mixed media game installation
Grouped by three, the drawings and the text can be read in any order through sliding the elements vertically or horizontally. The format of every single drawing is based on the size of an identity card. The text has been inspired from testimonies of people suffering from alcoholism.
Mixed media game installation (Drawings - Plexiglas - metal structure)
98 cm x 72 cm x 80 cm / 2017
MIND YOUR HEAD
Light installation
This light installation has been made for the exhibition “All In“, at the Bilgensau Art Space, a gallery under the Danube level in the Bilge of the boat Florentine.
"Mind your head" is written in morse code, a small hint to the visitors of the exhibition who have to crawl inside the bilge of the boat in order to see the different works.
With the help of Nir and Leo Schatzl.
Bilgensau Art Space, Linz, Austria
Photo credits: Erich Goldmann
"Mr. Watson, please come here. I need you."
One of the motivation for this project was the envy to play with the minimal representation that I could find of our smart phone and unframe, cut, distort, transform its empty shell like we could do with a simple pair of scissors and some papers. The black painting that have been used is a painting that absorbs most of the light in contrary to our screens. The purpose was to swallow all information in order to create new narratives and meaning through the parcelled bits of “fake“ iphones.
The title is a reference to the first words that Alexander Graham-Bell said to its assistant on the phone in 1876. Words that already demonstrate all the paradoxes of displacing a voice at another place.
Photo credits(below and first picture right): Nagi Gianni
CLEAR RECENT SEARCHES
Mixed media installation - work in progress
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