Dear all,
I am very pleased to inform you of a new installation:
Thierry Fournier
THE PROBE
L’art dans les chapelles / Art in chapels festival, Pontivy, Brittany, France
July 18th - Septembre 20th, 2020
Video, images and interview: https://www.thierryfournier.net/the-probe
<https://www.thierryfournier.net/the-probe>
A projector turns on itself, slowly, exploring the space around it. It projects
an intense rectangle of white light that it moves over all walls and objects.
It also carries a camera, which films exactly what it illuminates. His image is
shown on a large screen, placed nearby against a wall, like a painting: we see
what he sees.
This apparatus speaks, in a synthesized voice, as if it was thinking aloud and
trying to describe what surrounds it. It searches, stops at details, tries to
understand space and objects, wonders about this place and its meaning but also
about his own status and perception. Sometimes it seems to react to the
presence of humans.
‘The Probe' thus installs in a space the fiction of a non-human and living
entity that inhabits it, like an artificial and panoptic force. The apparatus
can also evoke the religious expectation that we have of technology, especially
artificial intelligence, whose recurring motif is the surpassing of human
capacities.
The language of the work calls up several registers, from surveillance devices
to images of miraculous apparitions in classical painting, where the irruption
of a ray of light often represents the emergence of the divine or a revelation.
Here, the direction of the light is reversed: instead of coming from the
outside, it emerges from the inside, as if the space had been turned upside
down to become the theatre of an apparition and a questioning of the visible.
Have a nice summer,
Best
Thierry
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