Slowing streams
Single channel video; video mapping on water and mirrors
Fabric, stainless steel wire, pebbles, four steel tray : 40 cm * 30 cm.
6 m X 4 m
2023
Slowing Streams is an analog-interactive video installation that explores the relationship between human gesture and technology, while questioning our augmenting subordination to the latter.
The work is made up of four videos featuring hands washing, scrubbing, drying and sorting pebbles, in a repetitive, almost meditative cycle. When the audience touches the screens, the monotonous rhythm of the video is altered by its fluidified deformation, reminiscent of an image rippling on water.
This is achieved through a meticulously designed mechanical system:
The video projection is mapped onto four water basins, each covered with mirrors at its bottom. The mirrors reflect the video onto suspended fabric screens, themselves framed by wires that extend into the basin. When visitors interact with the screens, the wire frame moves, triggering ripples on the surface of the water, which in turn distort the projected video.
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3d rendering of the installation
3d rendering of the installation
Seeking to counter the frantic appeal of automation and new technologies, this work stands as an ode to deceleration and to the immaculate poetry of raw material. In this context, water, a symbol of transformation and movement, dialogues with pebbles, the embodiment of constancy, while the repetitive cleaning gestures captured in the videos evoke a sense of purification and reappropriation of matter, anchoring the work in an atmosphere that hybridizes rituality and low technology.
