Selma LepartR.E.D

Date(s): Sep 20 2013

Residency

R.E.D

© S. Lepart, 2013

Residency
September 20 – December 15, 2013

Artist Talk
November 21, 2013 at 5 pm

As part of the France-Québec – Digital Arts exchange residencies program
In collaboration with the CALQ and the Institut français

This installation considers the creation of mobile and communicating geometric shapes. Triangular shapes, regularly arranged on a wall or ground surface, form a graphic modulation that reacts to the presence of the public.

As the vertex of each triangle rises, it gives the impression that we are standing before an organic surface, a skin reacting to our presence. The surface vibrates, slackens, stirs, twitches, shudders. Not a puff of air and yet… This skin-material seems capable of emotions.

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R.E.D

© S. Lepart, 2013

Visual artist Selma Lepart has a degree from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, France. Her interdisciplinary work includes drawing, multimedia, sculpture, and video. In her work, she uses material or techniques drawn from computer science, physics, chemistry (the ferrofluid used to create Mercure Noir and Esquive), and even nanotechnology (Re-gard). She regularly collaborates with several laboratories from Montpellier. In recent years, she was given a studio and had the opportunity to work at Montpellier 2 University.

http://www.selmalepart.com/

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