“At night, on a highway rest area, when I was a child, I first perceived, almost imperceptibly, a distant sound wave emerging, accompanied by beams of light sculpting the horizon through the fog. The sound wave seemed to distort and gradually increase in volume, while the lights cast countless shadows stretching across the tarmac through guardrails, signs and trees. Then I caught a fleeting glimpse of a vehicle, sweeping away every sound and light trace into the void.”
Avancée Immobile is inspired by a personal experience which seeks to transcribe, through a visual and sound device, the memory of a distant experience lived when the artist was just a child. The artwork aims to freeze these fleeting moments, encapsulating them in a sensory atmosphere that evokes the duality between advancing and immobility, between the passage of time and the permanence of memories.
Avancée Immobile raises complex artistic issues, questioning the nature of memory and its visual expression. The attempt to transcribe a distant emotional experience raises the question of how to represent the intangible. How can we capture the quintessence of a bygone emotion through shapes and light?
The work also explores the power of art to transcend time in order to create a dialogue between the viewer and their personal memory. By highlighting this tension between advancing and immobility, ‘Avancée Immobile’ offers a reflection on the persistence of memories, on the way in which the past continues to vibrate within our present existence.
Creation readapated in coproduction with the platform
@secondenaturezinc Chroniques Creations and
@lieuxpublics , national center and European pole of creation for the public space.
Concept Design, Sound Creation:
@olivier_ratsi • Delegate Production:
@julien.taib ,
@crossedlab • Production Support: la Gaîté Lyrique • Technical Direction:
@joan_____giner • General management:
@victopangaud • Metal Craftsman:
@atelier_yuman