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« Feedback » - 2008 -

 

Sound installation

 Feedback is a generic title, which synthesizes and brings together a set of formal propositions. This term, deliberately borrowed from the musical field, exposes objects to a reading in which the sound, whistled, and sung material constitutes, according to the artist, a preoccupying center of interest ... or even a permanent obsession.

 

Installation presented in the Museum Pavilion.

Made up of a sound device (activated by white canaries on "piano strings" stretched in space), a water basin containing a set of musical instruments made of glass: Les impurs, ( Flute for four players, crystalwaker and cimbales, drums) placed on three islands "floating", it is organized around the projection of the film "Inverse". Video of 14 minutes, Inverse was realized in China with whistlers of a community of Guizhou Province. Sound and images travel through rural and urban spaces, where humans evolve in disparate landscapes, "Inverse" returns the real (situations, urban and rural views, subways of the subway and natural caves) into a dreamlike escape. The use of the negative process, the strong contrast of the black and white values, the presence of the sound and the whistled language are part of a story without scenario. A collage of images and sensations that creates a parallel universe, where seduction and anxiety mingle.

 

The Celestial Paradox performance concert is scheduled as part of the opening of the exhibition. It is a musical composition for glass instruments by Leïleï Tian (Chinese composer currently in residence at the Stockholm Opera), commissioned by the Museum of Objet - collection of contemporary art and the City of Reims.

 

Interpretation by soprano Chieko Hayashi, flutist Jean-Marc Scoatariu and percussionist Didier Plisson, in partnership with the Blois Agglopolys Music Conservatory, has been filmed and broadcast during the exhibition.