DIGITAL GARDEN

2005

31'00''

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Digital garden is a long video sequence, showing an incessant bubble release on
a humid floor, with a sound track mixing Mozart’s fifth concerto for violins and
orchestra, with the many noises that come with the making and the
disappearing of the bubbles. This long sequence introduces a space for formal experiments, subjected to many bubble releases which compose as many variations around the idea of building ephemeral structures, which could be assimilated to the architectural outlines of an unidentified age, to the sketches of classical gardens in relation with symmetry, or with social models of balance and resolved equations. These showers of bubbles constitute the central poetic element of this work, as in a game of chance in which one would deal out the cards again, and would create a whole new starting situation to elaborate a game.
This game, or experimental milieu is the metaphor of a cycle, of an evolving
practice, which is always redefined, as an artistic practice can be. The bubbles,
as constructive elements, are in a state of instability themselves, fed by a « will to survive », in a form of assimilation to a global structure.
Fusion or destruction seems to be the mainspring in this milieu, or in this
ephemeral structure. The blue-shaded, negative image amplifies the technological aspect of the image and specifies the soft atmosphere of poetry and digital symmetry, accompanied by a perfect example of harmony and musical construction: Mozart’s music. This video also makes an echo to my pictorial and sculptural practices, which use symmetry.