Sisyphus, a day after

A collaboration with Julien espagnon

2020 - work in progress

Digital photographs and ink drawing on Kozo paper.

Size : 16,5 x 23,3 cm  ou 23,3 x 33 cm

The project "Sisyphus, a day after" is a duo of artists started in July 2020. Our collaboration is distinguished by the unprecedented interaction between two artistic practices, photography and generative art*, an emerging technique not yet explored by artists.

In this project, the photographs of rocks capture natural phenomena. The algorithms, on the other hand, generate images from pure mathematical concepts. Between real and virtual, our practices seem to start from opposite extremes. However, these forms close to those existing in nature speak to us just as much as the photographs, referents of the real.  Thus, we observe a vast ground of experimentation common to the crossing of our mediums, when the images arise and the extremes cross in a right balance. The title of our project refers to the myth of Sisyphus, a mythological character condemned to hoist a stone to the top of a hill without ever being able to achieve it, a character forced to repeat his action without respite, carrying for us the symbolism of an endless artistic creation and a perpetual renewal of the material. But, beyond this reference to the first forms, similar in the matter and in the algorithmic concept, we foresee the means to realize images which invite to the imagination and to the personal interpretation: anthropomorphic evocations, fingerprints, spider webs... our images are the support to the daydream, to continue by the imagination the work of the matter.

*Generative art: Practice aiming at realizing via an algorithm a work generating in a random way and having an infinity of possibilities.