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residency and exhibition

Digital Realities #2

September-October 2019 at Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France

installation view, sculpture in the center of the black room, it represents a kind of geometric tree, around the black and white projections generated

1/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. View of the installation at Espace Croisé. 2019

detail of the sculpture, we can see the grainy and colorful texture in papier mâché, geometric and plant motifs

2/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the sculpture. 2019

detail of the sculpture, we can see the grainy and colorful texture in papier mâché, geometric and plant motifs

3/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the sculpture. 2019

detail of the sculpture, we can see the grainy and colorful texture in papier mâché, geometric and plant motifs

4/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the sculpture. 2019

detail of the sculpture, we can see the grainy and colorful texture in papier mâché, geometric and plant motifs

5/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the sculpture. 2019

detail of the sculpture, we can see the grainy and colorful texture in papier mâché, geometric and plant motifs

6/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the sculpture. 2019

detail of the video projection, showing organic and geometric 3D shapes that appear to form the silhouette of a tree

7/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the projection, generated image. 2019

detail of the video projection, showing organic and geometric 3D shapes that appear to form the silhouette of a tree

8/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the projection, generated image. 2019

detail of the video projection, showing organic and geometric 3D shapes that appear to form the silhouette of a tree

9/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the projection, generated image. 2019

detail of the video projection, showing organic and geometric 3D shapes that appear to form the silhouette of a tree

10/10 Copyright. La ligne ouverte. Detail of the projection, generated image. 2019

Dates:
Residency: september-october 2019
Exhibition: from October 3, 2019 to December 14, 2019
Opening on October 3, 2019 at 6:30 PM at Espace Croisé, free entry

Location:
Espace Croisé,
La Condition Publique
2 place Faidherbe
59100 Roubaix

Artists:
Ali Honarvar and Antonin Jousse

Curator:
Shabnam Rahimian

Production:
Espace Croisé

This residency is produced by Espace Croisé as part of the exhibition Back / Forward 2 and presented the second part of the project Digital Realities.

Link:
Exhibition Back / Forward 2
Digital Realities #1

Digital Realities is a work begun in 2017 in collaboration between Iranian artist Ali Honarvar (sculptor and designer) and French artist Antonin Jousse (digital artist), curation and project management by Shabnam Rahimian. This project led to the creation of two installations bearing the names Digital Realities #1 and Digital Realities #2 respectively, which were exhibited during the TADAEX festival in Tehran in autumn 2018 and then at the Espace Croisé in Roubaix during the Franco-Iranian group exhibition Back / Forward #2 in autumn 2019.

This collaboration is the starting point of La ligne ouverte and reflects its working methodology. The objective from the outset was to collaborate on a common work between two artists from two different countries who did not know each other beforehand. Having different specialties, the two artists had to learn to develop common themes and agreed on the question of digital media. The latter are both the means of meeting and communicating between the two artists, the only point of view through which they had access to each other's culture (the two artists traveled to Iran and then to France after choosing the theme of collaboration) and above all a socially and politically important element in the relations between the two countries.

Digital Realities #2 is an installation featuring a sculpture by Iranian artist Ali Honarvar and two projections of real-time 3D images of the sculpture. The work questions the notion of cultural re-reading and the distortion of information by digital media. The sculpture is based on Iranian motifs and plant forms. The digital system consists of an infrared camera that attempts to analyze the sculpture in real time, accompanied by a program that constructs an image from this view. What is missing from the capture is supplemented by patterns taken from a database of images of traditional motifs from Ali Honarvar's hometown of Shiraz (fabrics, carpets, architecture, etc.) and textures from the sculpture. This project explores the limits of computer and media vision: the limits of memory (database) and image analysis.

Digital realities #2 is produced by Espace Croisé and curated by Shabnam Rahimian, who develops numerous projects for international artistic exchanges, particularly between France and Iran.