Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Body Movies, part of the Relational Architecture Series, #6. In this interactive installation photographic portraits taken in advance are super-imposed onto shadow silhouettes of passers-by ranging between two and twenty-five meters depending on their position from the light source responsible for casting the shadows. The audience can influence the projected content with their position and cue, allowing them to play with their projected contour and the visual stories they may contain. I wonder to what extent this scaled reflection of one’s own body contour triggers proprioceptive awareness.

This installation brings to mind Danielle Raymond’s work on Bernard Guelton‘s artistic concept of archifictions, where narratives and memories in the form of videos and stills projected onto selected architectural surfaces, bringing forth a juxtaposition of time and place. See excerpt from her exhibition “Bruits d’archives” at UQTR University gallery R3.

2015 – Danielle Raymond (Bruits d'archives) from galerie d'art R3 on Vimeo.