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GAÏA - Both a painting and a sculpture, GAÏA represents a view of our planet Earth from the outer space. By stepping into GAÏA, the visitor brings all his senses to play, confronts the matter and feels the invisible beyond his visual perception. For the spectator who takes an active part in the artwork, the immersion time is a dreamlike and sensory experience that leads him to feel and react. In this spatial environment, his perception of shapes is deliberately disrupted, blurring his lucidity and the boundaries between illusion and reality.
The physical experience of the journey enhances the awareness of the planet’s magical beauty, as well as its fragility. Through its distortions, GAÏA illustrates the Anthropocene, i.e. the adverse impact of man on ecosystems, which leads to an unprecedented global disorder. But when everything settles down and no one is visiting GAÏA, a light sway in the wind reminds us of a slow and regular breathing. Is helping the Earth breathe at last a utopian vision ? It is, without any doubt, an artistic message of hope.
The physical experience of the journey enhances the awareness of the planet’s magical beauty, as well as its fragility. Through its distortions, GAÏA illustrates the Anthropocene, i.e. the adverse impact of man on ecosystems, which leads to an unprecedented global disorder. But when everything settles down and no one is visiting GAÏA, a light sway in the wind reminds us of a slow and regular breathing. Is helping the Earth breathe at last a utopian vision ? It is, without any doubt, an artistic message of hope.
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PACHAMAMA’S ANGER - The tears of Pachamama, the "mother earth", a major Inca deity, have dried up in response to the ever-increasing deforestation in South America. For the Amerindians, Pachamama symbolizes fertility, abundance of resources, land fertility, and nature in general. According to beliefs, she can be either generous and protective or throw vengeful tantrums when she is not given material and spiritual recognition.
Unbalanced relationships between Pachamama and human beings lead to retaliation… It’s a certainty now. However, the Pachamama warned us…
Unbalanced relationships between Pachamama and human beings lead to retaliation… It’s a certainty now. However, the Pachamama warned us…
SAMSARA - The Samsara is, in Buddhism, the cycle of existences of unenlightened beings. Samsara is often depicted as a circle, round or sphere. Under the yoke of passions, illusions, and ignorance, individuals fail to recognize the true nature of phenomena, the value, and beauty of the world. They then create a virtual and illusory reality, maintain it and thus wander in the cycle of existences. Beings only come out of this cycle by reaching Nirvana, a state that frees individuals from their conditions of suffering, illusion, and ignorance.