Sorbonne Artgallery

To walk the desert is to make the physical experience of the relation to the horizon.The further one goes, the further it recedes. Atacama and Bonneville are enriched by a night horizon that offers the naked eye a detailed image of the cosmos, a sky covered with thousands of celestial objects. The apparent proximity of the luminous points is deceptive, some celestial objects are close (a few light-years) others are several thousand AL of the Earth. The gaze which gives a reading of this celestial vault, dissolves little by little in the multiple temporalities of the visible stars.

 

It is this paradox that I explore between the Euclidean scale of the desert and the current models of the universe. In ephemeral land art installations, I use light vectors (laser pointers) to highlight perspectives, spatial and temporal connections between celestial and geographical coordinates. On sites where the clear horizon provides a visual balance between the ground and the sky. The laser then becomes a tool to direct the gaze on celestial objects in the white page of the desert.

 

The laser, a modern rule of surveyors (laser standard), is a means of positioning itself in the cosmos. This large-scale drawing tool allows me to establish spatial relationships according to the sites with light as interface. The beam of the dense and rectilinear laser defies by its scope the perception of space and gives the sensation of «touching» at a distance.

 

The repeated actions of the series «Cosmographies», connect the sky and the earth by geometric combinations and architecture ephemeral sculptures of light between nearby objects and deep sky. At a given moment in time and place, the plots of light manifest the relations of simultaneity between the continuous movement of the Earth and that of the cosmos. The series of photographs underlines a suspension of time between these two immensities.