From matter to virtual image and from old to new technologies, the interactive installation Antidote brings together the act of weaving and the Odyssey, in the light of early cinema and the beginnings of moving image. A fully embroidered tissue film circulates inside a machine structure inspired by the Kinetoscope Edison and Émile Reynaud's Theatre Optique, in an attempt to explore the equation between the threads generating an image on the flat surface of a tapestry or an embroidery, the grains of silver prints and the pixel-points.
Embroidery : Guy Caudron
Design : Marc Baudin (Gilbon & Coroller)
Manufacture : Marc Baudin (Gilbon & Coroller), Gabriel Leger, Tobias Muthésius (woodworking)
Production : Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains
with the support of Le Fonds de Dotation Agnès b.
Machine : height 195cm x 485cm x 40cm
Materials : plexiglas / steel / wood / brass
Embroidered film : 10 x 720cm of tissue, 800 embroideries
Video : timelapse, 10 FPS
2014
Les Amis du Fresnoy award (FR)
2014
Runway / Bipolar award, Le Fresnoy (FR)
2015
5th Thessaloniki Biennale, cur. Katerina Koskina, Relative Mouvements, with Julien Prévieux (GR)
Les Abattoirs-Toulouse, Cadences (FR)
2014
Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains, Panorama 16 : Solus Locus, cur. Matthieu Orléan (FR)
Lille 3000, Festival EXIT / MAC Créteil, Festival VIA / Maubeuge, Home Cinema, cur. Charles Carcopino (FR)
Espace Culture — Université Lille 1 (FR)
Bruxelles Nuit Blanche (BE)