Léa de Cacqueray, De Fatom
- architecture
- exhibition
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Steampunk
With Capsule, Luxembourg Art Week takes over vacant spaces in the city center. Each activated space will remain visible from the street 24/7.
"Crossed by rationalism, modernity sought to trivialize technologies to make them neutral and objective. However, the current society with its connected and smart objects, influencing our perceptions and modes of communication daily, shows us that technology is “charged with mysticism”. "The cyborg is a spiritual being there, the machine is haunted, the cyberspace doubles the world" and meanwhile, humans are working "to build space colonies that will take the lucky ones from a perishing land", recalls philosopher Manuela de Barros.
The technological machine is undeniably asserting itself as a “medium of unveiling” that re-enchants our world by feeding our present and especially future imaginations. Even faced with its obsessive, often polluting presence in every corner of the globe, much of the scientific community still relies on the salvaging powers of geoengineering.
It is this ambiguous relational field, where magical belief and technique intertwine and shape each other, that Léa de Cacqueray explores with her practice of installation and sculpture. By creating astonishing hybridizations that mix some forms of ancient divination rituals, such as oracles or hydromancy, with shapes from robotics or the medical sphere, the artist designs works with a high-tech aesthetic whose nature is cryptic and indefinable, conducive to fictional speculation.
Equipped with interactive capabilities, her works integrate textual and sound elements as well as mechanical movement to evoke undetermined emotions that reshape our conception of the living and the inanimate.
Flirting with the universe of Science Fiction, Léa de Cacqueray’s works question our technological rituals and beliefs: between the power of alienation and liberation to extract oneself from reality, how do we experience these enchantments that carry our imaginations ever further?
Where does it take place?
Luxembourg Art Week
Glacis square (Fouerplaatz)
Ville-Haute Luxembourg
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