Paying tribute to artist Pierre Soulages’ work, artist Miguel Chevalier has presented the Pixels Noir Lumière exhibition at Musée Soulages in Rodez, France.
“This exhibition resonates with the works of Pierre Soulages and testifies to the great contemporaneity of his work, its radicality and the source of inspiration it represents for artists of all generations,” said Chevalier.
Two interactive installations called Pixels Liquides and L’Origine du Monde are featured at the exhibition.
Visuals in shades of black and blue with a variety of texture effects such as smooth and streaked are projected onto a wall for the Pixels Liquides installation. Visitors are able to interact and alter the visuals in real-time with the movement of their body.
“Each spectator-actor body becomes a digital brush of a work in constant motion, immersive in the space and time of the interaction,” explained Chevalier. “One of the differences, however, is that the experience can be shared here by and between the different actors jointly changing the creation, while, with Soulages, the experience is always a solitary one.”
“From one approach, the other is in the triangular “work, spect-actor, movement” relationship where the technique eventually disappears behind the sensation, going beyond the optical and playful aspect, paving the way to introspection, to emotion,” added Chevalier.
For the L’Origine du Monde installation, visuals inspired by microorganisms, cellular automata and swirling pixels are projected onto the ground. Similarly to Pixels Liquides, the visuals can be altered by walking across the floor.
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