An annual showcase of creativity at Le Fresnoy, the renowned National Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, near Lille, "Panorama" presents over 50 new works each year in the fields of image, sound, and digital creation, produced by resident students. Here is our selection from this 25th edition.e edition.
Combining sculptures resembling underwater ruins with digital videos, the Chinese artist Yue Cheng (born in 1995), with her installation The WorldIt plunges us into a utopian underwater world, one of the reappearance of prehistoric marine species in a post-industrial, futuristic setting. Bordering on science fiction, its abyssal landscapes confront us with the depths of destruction and dehumanization.
No less dystopian, Marcel Mrejen's (born in 1994) audiovisual installation, which transforms the Algerian desert into a virtual landscape (blending real and unreal images), plunges us into a state of anticipation after captivating us with its beauty: illuminated by a science-fiction artificial sun, this world without night, swept by a sandstorm, could it not be that of "the capitalist utopia of infinite growth"? 1 "?
To rouse us from our torpor, Victor Villafagne's (born in 1995) sound installation blasts out explosions, gunfire, and screams mixed with snippets of nationalist anthems and top hits remixed by artificial intelligence. A formidable "acoustic weapon of mind manipulation" that will make you appreciate silence and the gentle poetry of... Circus Variations by Ferdinand Campos, artist, mathematician, and poet. With this impressive installation combining visual poetry and textile sculpture, we are confronted with two simulacra of mountains where fragments of poems, written during an ascent, are displayed, analyzed, and recomposed via a complex algorithmic system. Not far from there, Bianca Dacosta, originally from Brazil, shows us the "body of water" (Water CorporationFacing a screen projecting mountain images, a suspended plastic sheet filled with water is visited by a virtual whitish body appearing and disappearing, thus creating "a sensory space," "a mineral fiction that invites us to feel our primary relationship with this [liquid] element that constitutes us." 1 ».
With its polymorphic environment of Night StalkerSarah-Anaïs Desbenoit (born in 1992), for her part, invites visitors to "enter a meditative state through an evolving visual and sonic landscape." A sunset projected on a loop on a screen, tears/drops falling into a miniature basin, a small train running on a track… the animated sculptures that make up this poetic and playful landscape are all micro-fictions designed "to convey a state tinged with a certain melancholy, leading us to a dreamlike and melodic wandering."
- Quotes taken from the exhibition catalogue.
"PANORAMA 25"
Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts
22, rue du Fresnoy, Tourcoing
Until January 7, 2024
