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Cenotaph 0
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A global phenomena lies before you.
Whole buildings, districts and cities are being built at incredible speed at the four corners of the world. Their buildings all share one particularity, they are all abandoned before their construction ends, suspended between work in progress and complete ruin. These constructions are known as tofu buildings, instant ruins, and many more, but everyone knows them by the name of ghost cities.
Cénotaph 0 is an automated installation that builds and un-builds an infinite concrete model inspired by these real landscapes. This liminal state of in-between exists in the entire installation, the elements are produced using an experimental mix of computer assisted and artisanal techniques, their slimness and brittleness induced many broken elements during production and even during presentations when the machine makes mistakes. These broken elements accumulate in a second inner landscape in a tumulus-like shape faintly lit by the machine.
Lastly, a moving surveillance-camera system recomposes a live traveling shot inside the model that loops endlessly and is presented first to the visitor, playing with his sense of scale and perspective.
A Cenotaph is a funerary monument that contains no human remnants, it is purely symbolic by nature.
Whole buildings, districts and cities are being built at incredible speed at the four corners of the world. Their buildings all share one particularity, they are all abandoned before their construction ends, suspended between work in progress and complete ruin. These constructions are known as tofu buildings, instant ruins, and many more, but everyone knows them by the name of ghost cities.
Cénotaph 0 is an automated installation that builds and un-builds an infinite concrete model inspired by these real landscapes. This liminal state of in-between exists in the entire installation, the elements are produced using an experimental mix of computer assisted and artisanal techniques, their slimness and brittleness induced many broken elements during production and even during presentations when the machine makes mistakes. These broken elements accumulate in a second inner landscape in a tumulus-like shape faintly lit by the machine.
Lastly, a moving surveillance-camera system recomposes a live traveling shot inside the model that loops endlessly and is presented first to the visitor, playing with his sense of scale and perspective.
A Cenotaph is a funerary monument that contains no human remnants, it is purely symbolic by nature.
