Pablo Valbuena
Kinematope [Le Fresnoy] - Performance - 2017
présentée dans le cadre de l'exposition panorama 19
kinema: movement (from the Greek kínêma)
-tope: place (from the Greek topos)
This project, part of the Kinematope series,
is an in situ installation conceived for the
architecture of Le Fresnoy – Studio national des
arts contemporains.
Kinematope [Le Fresnoy] explores the perceptual
transformation of an environment through
time. The piece uses light and sound to set
space in motion. It deconstructs and rearranges
the components of the material of cinema to
generate a spatial film.
The result is an experience based on time that
omits all mediation by video camera and that
transports observers into a virtual space-time,
while preserving the body’s physical links with
its environment.
The idea behind the work is underpinned by
the conceptual origins of Bernard Tschumi’s
architecture. The piece organically reactivates a
space that has been neglected because it is open
and functionless, qualities which in fact bestow
character and originality on the building.
For Tschumi, “intercalation is not planned for
at the outset, yet it becomes the mainspring of
the project… the locus of all the phantasms and
of the experiments on space and time.”