[ISEA2023] Artist Statement: François Ronsiaux — The Cloud

Artist Statement

Fusion of the Possible, Topographie de l’art, April 15 – June 15

Stainless steel box 80×50 cm, stainless steel bar variable dimensions, spy mirror, looped 3d video
Courtesy of gallery Waltman.

The Cloud is a video installation made up of a stainless steel box on a bar fixed between the floor and the ceiling, broadcasting a 3D video of a vaporizing cloud reconstituting itself indefinitely, embedded behind a spy mirror.

The perpetual vapor nebula returns our image in transparency, filtered by the reflecting mirror, inducing a depth, an indecisive and fluctuating dimension. The totemic device appears to us like a mirror of the soul, ephemeral, floating, which sometimes appears and disappears depending on gravity and ambient hydrometry.

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  • François Ronsiaux was born in 1974 in France, lives and works in Paris. Visual artist photographer, head of the Plateforme gallery in Paris, initiator of the Tangible Image Biennale and president of the contemporary art promotion association L’entreprise. François Ronsiaux is one of these artists with protean creation, exercising his art on themes such as the engineering of propaganda, modern ideologies or environmental developments; Through his experiences he constructs a puzzle where chance and his own spiritual research on his relationship with the world combine. Using contemporary technologies and materials, François Ronsiaux, originally a photographer, creates installations, performances, visual and sound projects at the limit of balance and in allegories of reappropriation of the essential laws of nature. https://francoisronsiaux.com