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Pascal Haudressy
Paris

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Pascal Haudressy is showing at:
The Old Federal Building The Old Federal Building
155 N Division Ave
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
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Pascal Haudressy
Artist bio: Born in Paris in 1968, Pascal Valéry Haudressy, a French artist of Tatar origin, is distinguished by his unprecedented artistic approach, with a complicit relationship between the content and the form, the format and the substance. He pioneered a new image format focusing on movement.
Artist statement: Pascal Haudressy explores the theme of a changing world, where biological entities ever-increasingly coexist with virtual life forms whose inevitable hostility takes the reassuring mantle of chimerical progress, which intersects with the wholesomeness of comfort.

He creates a dialogue between substance and form to a paroxysm by using two basic concepts in the process of its creation: movement and installation.

He also seeks to split the work and, consequently, its possible interpretations, by modelling the video broadcasting framework as an artistic object in its own right, using the codes of sculpture and painting.
The physical essence interacts and combines with virtuality and digital abstraction to bring the spectator into another artistic dimension.
About the work:
Title: Somewhere we will meet again

Art form: Film / Video

Medium: Video

Year created: 2009

Description of work: First of all I wanted to express a space that creates a physical link between our physical world, the space you are presently in and the digital world. This is the reason of the three dimensional glass rectangle that hosts the heart. It doesn’t have any frontal part; it is an interactive space between two worlds even if it gives the optical illusion that it is closed on itself. Another thing you should know is that the lines of the heart are generated by a computer bug that I created. They express the struggle of virtual reality to find its incarnation in to concrete reality, at least until now

Work statement: Very young (at the birth) my twin brother died but I was too young to understand it, to remember him. I lived all my life with a semiconscious but strong feeling about this lost, virtual in what concerns my memories and quiet concrete regarding my feelings. In other words the feeling of being abandoned and in a way the fear of lost is something that grew strongly in me.

More recently, three years ago, I met an Italian girl with whom I deeply felt in love, we lived together two years and then she had to go back to Roma. Our relationship continued in another dimension, a digital and mental one. A world where everything is virtually possible and physically impossible at the same time. “Somewhere we will meet again“ talks about the transposition of a lost physical relationship into the digital world and the struggle between a finite physical space and a virtual and infinite one.

Let’s go back to the ancient world and let me say now a few words on the physical aspect of my piece.

Technical details:
Work width: 39 inches
Work height: 80 inches
Work depth: 30 inches
Required venue ceiling: 120 inches
Required venue door height: 150 inches
Required venue door width: 100 inches
Required wall linear footage: 5 ft.
Required venue square footage: 300 sq. ft.
Additional considerations:
Audio/video needed: No
Electrical needed: Yes
Lighting needed: No
Internet access needed: No
Ground floor access needed: No
Indoor space needed: Yes
Outdoor space needed: No

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