"I left the anger. I just wanted to express empathy. So I looked for a more delicate medium, drawing inspiration from Ikebana, Sumi-e, and a childhood memory that is dear to me: Peter Vogel's cybernetic sculptures. "
The three "witnesses" are two-metre-high metal monoliths borrowing from
the aesthetics of kakemonos (Japanese vertical posters). Each "witness"
will be the support for a very short text relating to the erosion of
risk awareness and its consequences. In front of each Japanese
calligraphic text (on white panels) stands an electronic sculpture. The
lights and sounds these sculptures emit illustrate the text in a
symbolic way. The aesthetics of the circuits, whose components are
directly soldered together, are graphically reminiscent of sumi-e. These
three "witnesses" are narrators. They evoke the catastrophe through
text and stylized evocations. The lights and electroacoustic sounds they
emit (parasites, rattling and more or less random rumblings) complement
each other to form an asynchronous choir."
"J’ai laissé la colère. Je
voulais juste exprimer une empathie. J’ai donc cherché un médium des
plus délicats en m’inspirant de l’Ikebana, du Sumi-e, ainsi que d’un
souvenir d’enfance qui m’est cher: celui des sculptures cybernétiques de
Peter Vogel. Il a fallu apprendre. Cela à donc été assez long.
Suffisamment long pour que, de tout ce que je croyais vouloir dire, il
ne reste qu’une trentaine de mots articulés par trois témoins." - Eric Vernhes
post originally published in may 2012
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