VITRINE
EXHIBITION SERIES
OCT 18, 2024
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NOV 18, 2024
Sandrine Deumier
Unnatural - of humus and artifact
Unnatural - of humus and artifact features an interactive artwork by video artist Sandrine Deumier. The exhibition features a fictional environment that imagines a posthuman existence encompassing knowledge, spirituality, and interconnection in the living world.
“…Unnatural - of humus and artifact proposes to project the user into a fictional human society whose development of technical and spiritual knowledge would have created a world of virtual artifacts without any modification of the natural environment…”
— Sandrine Deumier
Sandrine Deumier is a multidisciplinary artist working in the field of performance, poetry and video art whose work investigates post-futurist themes through the development of aesthetic forms related to digital imaginaries. Interested in storytelling through interactive narratives, she has been working for several years to develop poetic and visual fictions centered on the imaginaries of the living. Ecological concerns and speculative futures are at the heart of her research. Her work mainly focuses on how to imagine new ways of inhabiting the world using new technologies from an animist perspective, where the preservation of natural balances takes precedence over that of predation, accumulation and unlimited growth.
Video extract
From the place where the light goes out
Demo
Unnatural - of humus and artifact
Artist’s Statement About the Work
In a natural environment without any artificial infrastructure, and apparently uninhabited by the human species, an encounter takes place with an enigmatic character, who will turn out to belong to a hyper-technological human society inhabiting the Earth in a way unknown until then. An interactive point-and-click narrative device, "Unnatural - of humus and artifact" proposes to project the user into a fictional human society whose development of technical and spiritual knowledge would have created a world of virtual artifacts without any modification of the natural environment. This project tries to imagine a technologically augmented humanity in view of shared knowledge, spirituality and hyper-connection to the living world.