Lucas Leffler
Megacommunity - Installation - 2024
présentée dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 26
Megacommunityoffers a physical space where several people to integrate a virtual environment using VR headsets.
Spectators are invited to gather around a campfire, above which a luminous phenomenon is taking shape, caused by the deployment of a satellite megaconstellation. This work offers a space-time of contemplation and reflection in an experience which changes according to the number of people connected.
Evoking contemporary feelings of solastalgia, eco-anxiety and isolation provoked by technological change, the project invites us to communally build a fire.
It is based on a personal memory of watching the satellite deployment with friends and family on a summer evening.
Lucas Leffler
At the crossroads of genres, Lucas Leffler’s work invokes documentary and experimental film and flirts with fiction. The artist willingly assumes the position of investigator, both to research the technical aspects of photography, demonstrating an unquenchable thirst for experimentation, and to trace the thread of history, unearthing astonishing forgotten mythologies. The history of the places he investigates is as much a part of the work as his experiments with the medium, whose limits he pushes beyond its two dimensions.
Lucas Leffler lives and works in Brussels. He holds a bachelor’s degree in photography from HELB (Brussels, Belgium) and a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). His work is represented by the Intervalle (France) and Lee-Bauwens (Belgium) galleries and has been exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne, Switzerland), FOMU (Antwerp, Belgium), Hangar Photo Art Center (Brussels), Eleven Steens (Brussels, Belgium) and the BnF (Paris, France). In 2022, he won the Picto Lab – Experimenting with images residency, and started the course at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.
