Cosmorama
Hugo Deverchère
Galerie Sator, Paris
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- Title
- Cosmorama
- Gallery
- Galerie Sator, Paris
- Year
- 2017
- Duration
- 21 min 45 s
Cosmorama observes the world as it does not appear. Conceived like a journey from our close environment to the distant and unknown horizons of the cosmos, it reveals an imperceptible stratum of the light spectrum. The film questions our common perception sand representations, it reintroduces notions such as the unknown, the uncertainty and oddity in our relationship with the world. Shot in the surroundings of an observatory (in a lava desert where the NASA recently tested Martian rovers) and in a primitive forest which gives us an overview of the state of the world 50M years ago, the film uses a near-infrared imagery process with which astronomers usually observe the deep reaches of the universe. It also makes audible the light pulsations emitted by distant stars and galaxies by transposing radio-telescopes data into sound. By disrupting our usual spatiotemporal markers, Cosmorama allows the emergence of a sensitive and collective experience of pure perception.
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Hugo Deverchère
- Artist
1988
Hugo Deverchère graduated from ENSAD Paris (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) and from Le Fresnoy-National studio for contemporary arts.
Driven by an almost scientific approach, Hugo Deverchere’s work attempts to set up a body of experiences which are just as many ways to question and evaluate our relationship with the world. Whether based on stories, collected data, captured or simply found images, his research often involves processes such as modelization, conversion, and transposition. The resulting forms act as a prism between reality and its representations, revealing the interval which separates our perception of the world and the knowledge and awareness we have of it.
His work has recently been exhibited and screened in Palais de Tokyo (Paris FR), FRAC Grand Large (Dunkirk), Pearl Art Museum (Shanghai), MACRO (Rome), the International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH:DOX (Copenhagen), Ars Electronica (Linz) and the Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montreal).
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Galerie Sator
- Address
- Passage des Gravilliers 8, 75003, Paris, France
- Phone
- +33142780484
- lise@galeriesator.com
- Website
- www.galerie-sator.com
The gallery is characterized by its strong emphasis on visual art that references other forms of art and a range of fields of thought – politics, history, art history, literature, philosophy and science – which seek to question the place of the human in the world and offer tools for critical reflection on contemporary societies, their evolution and their transformation, and their territorial relationships. An ongoing investigation of the image and the production of plastic forms complete the gallery’s approach.
Resolutely international, the gallery promotes the work of artists from both France and throughout the world. The mediums of expression explored by the gallery’s artists range from painting to drawing, and from objects to installation and photography. For several years now, Galerie Sator has also developed a research project dedicated to the production of video art, from virtual reality to documentary-fiction and from classic projections to participative environments.