Video, 23'' (format commissioned by CAC 23 en Creuse), 2018
with the participation of physarum polycephalum bacteria, colored alginate footprint landscape, midnight blue clitoria flower juice, mica dust glitter agar. Production: La Petite Escalère.
Rosace is a work on the notion of landscape, and the place of man, between the memory of water, the memory of the body, and the displacement of the living.
The kaleidoscopic effect of the image generates the shape of a living rosette, whose heart expands and retracts to the rhythm of techno music. Yellow physarum polycephalum (bred in the laboratory of Audrey Dussutour, research director at the CNRS) and orange physarum polycephalum (bred in the Creuse region of France) dance on the cosmic surface. The film was born of a long collaboration, throughout 2018/19, with residents of the EHPAD du Prissé, suffering from Alzheimer's disorders, and pupils from the Prissé elementary school, as part of an invitation from La Petite Escalère. Our skins and hands met in dance to form new utopian landscapes, sealed in alginate by hollow-molding the points of contact. The physarum polycephalum entered the scene. Primitive beings from before prehistory, unicellular bacteria represented for our group the most living and eternal of augmented imprints. I filmed their movement in time lapse. The kaleidoscopic effect creates the shape of a living rosette, its heart expanding and contracting to the rhythm of techno music. Yellow physarum polycephalum (bred in the laboratory of Audrey Dussutour, research director at the CNRS) and orange physarum polycephalum (bred in the Creuse region of France) dance in chorus on the cosmic surface.