« Every year during the summer, field thistles unleash legions of volatile seeds that can be seen drifting freely until they reach their destination. In this installation, a computer-generated reproduction of a thistle seed lingers in mid-air, a camera gently orbiting around it. The video loops, avoiding any form of editing and erasing the idea of a ‘time and place'.

Images are not the things they represent, nor do they say much about anything else than ourselves. The Jungian school of psychoanalysis speaks of personal myth, or personal mythology, to describe an individual's "internal system of images, narratives, and emotions" (S. Krippner). Thus, just as freely as the thistle seed roams, our subconscious projects, connects, and tries to make sense of the outer world. In doing so, using a powerful poetic and symbolic language of its own, the subconscious enables us to see new trails of beauty and meaning within the mundane.

Computer generated images, despite their deceptive photoreal appearance that can mimic photography, are not instant captures of the material world like the former, but rather projections of human knowledge. They show only what we know, such as with 3D images, or what we have already seen, with generative AI. The uncanny that stems from their proximity to observable reality betrays the gap between that reality, and what we know and perceive of it. This gap shortens every day, but the remainder is nonetheless an abyss we might never traverse.

This floating seed is an open ended question. It is a proposition to gaze with wonder into the abyss, to embrace what is unknown, rather than what is certain. »

-Valentin Gillet

From January 23 to February 15, 2025.
Open Fridays and Saturdays, 3pm to 6pm
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