The device designed as part of the exhibition «This Space Between You and Me» is deployed as an installation with multiple ramifications. At its center, like a heart around which a network of plastic arteries is connected, a resin tank feeds the various «organs». A metaphor for a body in which living and tech- nical units co-operate, this autonomous environment articulates the notion of space separating the other from itself, as its title indicates. The expression can then be invested with various interpretations: who is the other here? And who’s talking? The machine, the man, or this vegetable cyborg, invading all the space? Everything remains open. The texts circulating on the screens will offer an initial response and may help us to imagine, outside the pessimistic horizons too easily predictable, how to reinvest the notion of empathy in an almost already present future. Franck Balland  

  Far from an anthropocentric vision, where technologies allow the improvement of human faculties in a utilitarian and capitalist perspective, Benjamin Blaquart starts from «the consciousness of the relations and articulations that exist between all things to imagine new populations of which human would no longer be the center. The principle of unlimited hybridization authorized by the advance of the sciences, the cyborg is not here serving a sort of superman but rather a «horizontal world, constituted by a network of actants and different species permeable to one another. « Sarah Ihler-Mayer photo: Ana Drittanti

In Well Being, space and works were traversed by a network of tubes carrying 3D printed words in a coolant. This network crossed all the space of the galle- ry and various sculptures. The sculptures borrowed the prosthesis materials (re- sin, silicone, plastic ....) and digital techniques (lasercut, 3d print). The formal vocabulary was inspired by the language of the body (skin, fibers, exoskeleton) and architecture with indoor / outdoor games. A 3D animation resumed the codes of the medical video and rocked the space of a music made of relaxing waves. Prototypes of asexual bodies appeared in cold matter where the flow of the body was replaced by language (Paul B. Preciado, David Wojnaworicz, ...). @numero 13 photo: Benjamin Hugard

With architect Pierre de Brun, we conceptualize and produce biopolitical platforms, formal structures generated by multiple dialectical oppositions (inclusive / exclusive, continuous / discontinuous, positive / negative). Outside the 3D renderings, these shapes are materialized through DIY and industrial processes (laser cutting-negative-horizontal-subtractive / 3d printing-positive-vertical-additive). The platforms are proposals for distributing and presenting content (narrative, nutritional or human) that bring to the same scale urban planning, architecture, industrial design, commercial presentation and biological engineering.

Flow engineering is a wifi platform that controls the flows and datas that come in and out of the modules of my installations. It allows an infinite number of modules to connect.

(excerpt) original length: 5min 30 Exhibition view at La Friche Marseille France Support: Triangle France

Solo show at B-Gallery,

DRAC IDF production.

Credit photo: Hugard & Vanoverschelde

HD video

Fiber, acrylic resin,polyurethan painting, metal. 191x 98x 135 cm

Acrylic resin, polyester resin, inkjet print, polyurethan paint, neon. 80x 42,5x 33 cm

 

«The Internet resembles more the labyrinth of a medieval city without a real architecture, than the beautiful arrangement of a highway» blaquartbenjamin.com/THE-HIDDEN/intro.html

   

Acrylic resin wood, polyurethan painting, fiber, mirror, motor, sound surround 5.1,spots. 54 salon de Montrouge Variable dimension

2 video channels and setting 10 min

HD video and ceramic