“Loop” : collective exhibition (Lyon Particule Gallery)

Video installation in tribute to my late son, as part of the group exhibition “Loop” at the Lyon Particule Gallery (Lyon, France).

Visitors were invited to take pictures of the exhibition and of themselves in the exhibition, which they could share directly with their phone (via a displayed QR code). I proposed and implemented this digital mediation, which worked very well. The photographs that illustrate this article are taken from the visitors’ shots.

Introduction to the exhibition

Gathered around Laurent Antonczak, five artists make dialogue of animated images in loop, which draw tracks of self-discovery in the meeting of images and sounds in movement. The sharing of the intimate look, on oneself, on one’s daily life, on the memory, personal and collective, which brings us together, often much more than we think.

The diversities of the views of these five artists are complementary and combine to make their works resonate more strongly with our souls.

And in the middle of the images, the bodies of the visitors, illuminated by the images, and then a fax machine, a primitive image-making machine: move around and make images with the images, in front of them, inside them, in shadow form... take photos in the exhibition, and share them here (flash the QR code with your phone), to make common our joys, our laughter, our sorrows or even our most terrible mourning, and thus make a link, make humanity, with the digital that can be the instrument.

• Laurent Antonczak
• Pierre Bassery
• Geneviève Gauckler
• Benoît Labourdette
• Clinton Watkins

Cartels for Benoît Labourdette

Films by Benoît Labourdette (large screening) :

• An adult tree (2’18s, 2022).
• It is already past (1’55s, 2022).
• Path to the light (1’47s, 2022).
• Extinction of a star (1’52s, 2022).
• Hesitation to life (1’13s, 2022).
• The little train (2’, 2022).

Films by Benoît Labourdette (small screen):

• Calls for help (2’01s, 2022).
• Oh night (1’29s, 2022).
• Memory Palace (2’17s, 2022).
• A man sitting (7’36s, 2022).

Cartel for Genevieve Gauckler

Gomo
(Collection of hybrid and lowtech character films, 2020).

Urban Nihilists
(with the characters Patakorp and Thermokukus in Paris, 2018).

Luck and courage,
silkscreen print 2022, limited edition of 10 signed copies.

https://genevievegauckler.com
https://www.instagram.com/genevievegauckler/

Cartel for Laurent Antonczak & Pierre Bassery

LIVE" photos by Laurent Antonczak, and
Sound composition by Pierre Bassery :
MEDITATION 03 - DEATH (60s, 2022).
MEDITATION 05 - FIRE (60s, 2022).
MEDITATION 10 - NIGHT (60s, 2022).
MEDITATION 11 - CHICKEN (60s, 2022).
MEDITATION 18 - TUNNEL (60s, 2022).
MEDITATION 27 - PART-DIEU (60s, 2022).

Video by Laurent Antonczak, and
Sound composition by Pierre Bassery:
MEDITATION 09 - FISH (60s, 2022).

Cartel for Clinton Watkins

Wasteland (left)
2022
video loop/sound
1 x small 7" screen with internal USB or SD card playback
Sound playback via internal speaker of screen
Wall mounted in gallery

dark matter (right)
2022
video loop/sound
1 x small 7" screen with internal USB or SD card playback
Sound playback via internal speaker of screen
Wall mounted in gallery

https://www.clintonwatkins.net.nz/

All photographs taken by visitors

https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/_public/2022_expo_loop/