Rorschach Wall
This is an installation consisting of twelve televisions (43 inches) placed vertically forming a wall (two televisions high by six wide). The bottom row of televisions is at ground level. In front of the wall of televisions, the floor is covered with black acrylic panels in which the televisions and their content are reflected.
Each monitor broadcasts a video presenting a highly contrasted vaporous shape, in black and white with shades of navy blue. It looks like a cloud or smoke whose shape evolves very quickly. After several seconds, the temporality of the video is reversed, which gives the impression of a movement of swelling, then deflation of the shape. The televisions broadcast the videos in synchronicity, but they are symmetrically reversed from one screen to the other, as if each of the monitors were the mirror of its neighbor. Added to this simulacrum of reflections is the real reflection of the device in the acrylic panels, as if below the surface of the floor, it were duplicated in a mirror whose black color recalls that of a puddle of ink or even a puddle of oil. Added to this device is a sound that could be associated with that of breathing whose sequences are of the same hardness as that of the alternating movement of the video.
The reversed and alternating repetitions of the video, from one monitor to another, then in the reflection of the acrylic panels, become a whole in which the referential element of the video (the cloud, the smoke, the steam) dissolves, in favor of an almost kaleidoscopic pattern. Some The title Rorscharch Wall refers to the famous tests of the same name that are used for psychological evaluations. This consists of showing the patient images made up of symmetrical black ink stains, then to be interpreted by the patient by a phenomenon of diplopia. Through the abstract images, the patient is called upon to see elements of figurations that will serve for his diagnosis. This same phenomenon was also used by the Dadaists in a game they called paranoid screens.
EXHIBITIONS
Bang Center , Chicoutimi, Canada, 2020
YEAR OF COMPLETION
2020