synopsis devices biography
gelatine

The project "gelatine" was born from the media imagery of the tsunami striking Asia in December 2004 which managed to reintroduce the fear of the Sea in the spirit of the Westerners who for a long time do not live any more at the rate/rhythm of the great myths where the Man faced the unchained floods. At the turning of this catastrophe, the need for water is seriously questioned, its rarefaction progressive and its instability on the unit of the sphere lets predict end similar to the reign of the element. In response to this pessimistic vision, I wanted to shift our perception of the problem in the future, where water would be an object of collection, an element kept in formol, a luxury for those which would be likely to return in its contact and to rediscover its immersif effect. "gelatine" is an interactive installation which puts in scene the Sea, protected in the net of a screen. The title "gelatine" concerns the immobility and at the same time the passive and random movement. Technically, the device also concerns these two states: a video of the sea was carried out then sequenced in 1500 images themselves divided into 6. The witness returns in a black room, left cabinet of curiosities where some old photographs of the sea on the sides are hung, a console is laid out in front of its cage-screen where a mouse is placed, the witness contemplates his movement and comes to adapt the mouse which enables him to return in contact with the disappeared element. He comes to set in motion the perpetual motion of the Sea by his caresses and his clics. He activates a chaotic movement, a deaf exasperation, an animal by the displacement of mouse and reactive defense to the clic his defense by deviating the movement of his waves. At this time where the image is agitated, the witness is played of the inopportune reactions of the Sea, whereas the water screen does not cease refusing the contact. The Sea, endangered species, a state of deferment and captivity, tries to be defended like the lion, scratching the bars of its cage, stimulated by the stones which the visitors throw to him. Deprived its depth, the surface amplitude of its movements is violently by the edges of the screen while being folded back violently. "Gelatine" is as a manner of pointing finger the intimate report/ratio as the witness maintains with the full use of the water which makes it responsible for the alerting state in which is the planet. The passion reaction that this report/ratio causes is a torture for the element revealing the mechanics of its perpetual reason become precarious, since here work rejects the handling of the witnesses.

Monitor
Technically and conceptually, "Gelatine" can always be exhibited on a flat-faced screen (20 '' minimum) acting as framework, it materially defines the screen of the "cage", the approach of the audience materializes by a trackpad, its position will be detected and will make react the sea permanently unless it does not decide to contemplate it without touching there. The relationship is thus less delicate but adds to the approach the sensuality of the caress, the effect of immersion/reaction functions of as much better. Then the reason drawn by the user is added in transparency to that of the sea.