Curator Statement

Southern Winter Exhibitions 2023 at Hangars Numériques, May 16 – 21  then August 1 – 15 

From May 16 to 21, 2023, the research center for animated Dance / Hangars Numériques is exhibiting an innovative work by Adrien M. & Clair B., an augmented pop-up book. Looking at them through a tablet, the ten double-pages of the book Acqua Alta – The crossing of the mirror become small theaters, where a dance form unfolds thanks to the custom-developed application. Folded white papers and ink drawings meet in a graphic drawing and the simplicity of black and white, the artificial life of miniature beings dancing in a world imbued with the imagination of water.

The art center also hosts the work of Yung Chung Han, Plastic Landscape – The Reversible world, which sensitizes the viewer in a dreamlike way on plastic pollution with a 3D animated video design, generated by AI. His work parallels the history of Korea.

Finally, in August, Vegetal/digital, by australian artist Alison Bennett invites the viewer to experience the embodied harmony between plant and digital. The interactive design of the work encourages the viewer to slow down and tune in to the pulse of plants and computers, inducing an almost meditative state of mind.

• Marianne Lebon is artistic director of Hangars Numériques, an overseas digital art center based in Saint-Denis de La Réunion (French overseas department). Specialist in the transition from the dancing body to the image since 2008. Videographer-visual artist and independent dance researcher. Founder of the center for study and research in animated dance and programmer of FIDA#. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianne-louise-lebon-357686165/?originalSubdomain=re