Paysage de voyages 2001

Tissus urbains - ICARI, Montreal, Quebec, Canada — Chapelle Henri IV, Poitiers, France — Installation, interactive CD-ROM, video projections on screen and sand site — Dimensions related to the site. — Installation in collaboration with Emmanuelle Baud, director of the CD-ROM.

Paysage de Voyages, a multimedia fictions created by Emmanuelle Baud from the poetic and solitary spaces that feed Michelle Héon’s imagination in the creation of scenographies. A landscape of dunes built on the ground serves as a reception screen for still images and a video loop. Flashlights placed on the sand illuminate the landscape and invite the viewer to discover the topological singularities. Water and the desert are the essential elements of this contemplative space.

Paysage de Voyages is articulated in visions and fragmented times. He proposes a poetic approach to the installations and the gaze that crosses them: the moving landscapes, the event, the work in situ, the theatricality, the metaphors of the boat, the trial of time. Navigation, based on slowness and reverie, encourages the viewer to take the time to explore the images, to find the sounds and access hidden in the interface, to soak up the contemplative atmosphere in which he is immersed.  The poetic walk opens on an imaginary landscape, a panoramic without beginning or end, closed on itself, a desert landscape on which objects have failed.

  © Emmanuelle Baud & Michelle Héon, 2001, Paris, France.