The exhibition that artist Alain Wergifosse has prepared during his Pépinières residency at East Atelier Gallery presents several projects that the artist has been working on since 2020.
At the heart of these photographs, sound pieces and videos, we find this notion of feedback and this process of regeneration which also animate the cycles of nature and which is the main tool of Alain Wergifosse’s creative explorations in movement.
SPECTRES & NEONS serie
Theses series brings together nearly twenty images of lights in motion taken at night in the city at long photographic exposure.
The artist likes to dilate time to the extremes of slow motion, down to the absolute stillness, capturing fleeting moments of light in motion into shapes of intricate colors and strange spectral figures improvised in the air with the camera to form small visual compositions of silent “retinal music” (imaginary silent sounds made to excite the eye rather than the ear, like the needle of a pickup that vibrates to the groove of a vinyl record), frozen in time into the photographic space.
The modulation of the alternate electric current of the city’s power network is even made subtly visible inside the beams of light frozen in time.
This photographic series has been used to illustrate the artist’ second album SPECTRES & NEONS of experimental electronic music released in 2022 by the Belgian label Transonic and produced by Transcultures – Centre of digital and sound cultures (Belgium).
OMBRES & CHROMATISMES (2024) et FLUX & DENTITÉS (2020) series
The 2 series are the result of a process of creative experimentations on light using objects and physical optics like prisms, lenses, mirrors and filters to modulate beams of light into many compositions of mesmerizing color pictures.
Originally started during the pandemic lockdown, these works are part of an ongoing Art/Science project involving the use of photonic lab technologies and optic benches.
Both series of works are also used to illustrate the artist third and the future fourth album of the same respective titles to be released by Transonic, the latter of which is to be finished and mixed during a WeSA residency (as part of a collaboration with Transcultures Belgium/Europe) at the South Korean island of Jeju-Do.
SYNCHRONISMES
The video SYNCHRONISMES is an early work of self-generative digital video feedback process, originally recorded back around the early 2000’s and represents one of the clearest examples of what the author like to call “retinal music”: looking at these luminous fluxes, we can imagine sounds in the silence.
Alain Wergifosse (Be)
Belgian video artist and experimental musician having resided in Barcelona for 30 years, Alain Wergifosse has participated in countless sound projects solo and with groups such as Obmuz, Macromassa and Specop (in Spain).
For 10 years, he created interactive sounds and music for Marcel.lí Antúnez (founder of La Fura dels Baus). He co-organized the LEM and NoNoLogic festivals in Barcelona and published 3 albums: “Deep Gray Organics” in 1999 on the Geometrik label (Es), “Flux & Densités” in 2020 and the CD (+ booklet) “Spectres & Neons ” in 2022, both published by the Transonic (Be) label. In 2010, he composed the music for the film “Petite anatomy of the image” by Olivier Smolders.
He has produced numerous videos and immersive and sound installations regularly supported by Transcultures (and the City Sonic and Transnumériques festivals), the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and also, among others, by/for KIKK, Recyclart (Be), Zone Libre, European Pepinieres of Creation, and Vidéoformes (Fr), as well as concerts and sound and visual experimentation workshops.
Informations
- 07 > 24.09.2024 | 10 > 18:00
- Opening 07.09.2024 | 17h
- East Atelier Gallery
- 264 Wonnam-dong, Jongno-Gu, Séoul, République de Corée
- Free entrance
Production
- East Atelier Gallery, Transcultures, European Pepinieres of Creation
- With the support of Wallonia-Brussels International.
- Artistic curator: Philippe Franck / Transcultures, European Pepinieres of Creation
