Russian Voodoo
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Russian Voodoo

interactive installation
screen | micro PC | sensors | lace
2017
Exhibitions

Art Paris. Paris (FR) 2017

Galerie Charlot (FR) 2020

Displayed on a screen is the serene image of a Russian forest in winter.  Trees stand in gravid silence, the world asleep beneath a cold, low-hanging sun.  Two strands of rope hang from either side of the screen and give the illusion of continuing across the image.  This virtual rope twitches mischievously, enticing the visitor to grab hold of it.  In doing so, the visitor becomes a participant whose only choice of action is destructive.  When the physical rope is pulled back and forth, the virtual one saws through a tree and sends it lifelessly to the ground.  If they find it tempting, then the visitor can prolong the pointless mayhem indefinitely: once all the trees are toppled a new forest is generated and left at the mercy of the waiting pair of hands.

2023 / Installation
Digital Swamp
2021 / bas-relief triptych
Fingerprints
For those who have touched me.
2016 / interactive installation
Center of the Universe
Each of us is at the center of our own life, but when the universe
is infinite does it matter?
2017 / interactive installation
Russian Voodoo
What will you do when you hold a life in your hands?
Cruelty that’s casual is the most disturbing of all.
2016 / light installation
Lonely Planet
The dark side of the light
2021 / multimedia installation
French Spirit
A nation past its prime, dulled by wine, still trying to stay together.
2012 / interactive installation
Root
Each life coalesces in layers and has a story to be told if you can find it.
We make our own memories, ring by ring, until the day comes when we,
too, are uprooted.
2012 / projection-mapping
Back to Black
A playground of patterns, cycling through infinity, that needs one human
element among its geometric ones.
2015 / video sculpture
100 Pieces
It’s not too difficult to generate the generic: just follow the recipe,
sprinkle a bit of this or that, and you can cook up whatever
you want.
2008 / interactive installation
Memo
Russia, 1939. A state run by terror. A population in despair.
But even in darkness threads of light are visible, in paper and ink.
2015 / videosculpture
Towers
A cycle of construction and deconstruction, repeating ad infinitum,
that produces towers like melodies in a set of musical variations.
2013 / interactive relief sculpture
Final Journey
With a single touch comes release—slip through the final border and unburden yourself forever.
2012 / interactive installation
Masturbator
A voyeur’s fantasy shimmers into view, but to be a witness here you must also be a culprit.
A true hands-on experience…
2010 / video
War and Peace 360
Never-before-seen footage of an epic, visualized and shot by Tolstoy himself!!!
2013 / video-mapping
Chicken²
No fowl play here… just a little rustic charm pecking in the urban grit.
2016 / Interactive installation
Survival of the Fittest
Just because you climb the corporate ladder from the inside,
instead of scaling the walls from without, doesn’t mean
you’re any less of a beast.
2015 / videosculpture
Cycle of Revenge
Push past silent comfort zones and playfulness unravels into cruelty.
Payback takes on a life of its own, ceaselessly feeding upon itself.
2016 / interactive installation
Glory
An on-demand audience you can wear any time.