séquence vidéo pour moniteur préparé

Light video installation (2013)
50 inches LCD monitor, 1792 LED, computer, microcontroller, wood, metal and custom electronic componants.
26” x 78” x 13”

The Séquence vidéo pour moniteur préparé installation consists of a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen modified to achieve a very high contrast image. LCDs work with a backlight to make images visible. By changing and controlling this backlight, it is possible to reveal certain parts of the image and make others disappear in the dark. It is even possible to make the video screen itself disappear.

Shown in a completely dark room, the video image of a dancer rips out of the darkness, floating in the void like a hologram. The dancer, through his movements, reveals in snippets the space he occupies inside the modified monitor. At the beginning, he occupies a very small part of the monitor, he is restricted. Little by little, he unfolds, he gains in scale. The viewer discovers the space through the dancer’s mouvements.

Already plunged into darkness, having lost all notions of space and distance, having no perception of his surroundings, he is drawn to the light of the installation. He walks towards it, uncertain, to understand this image which floats in the void. And when the viewer turns around to exit the room, his eyes have become accustomed to the darkness and he becomes aware of the space which may be much larger than he would have imagined.

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