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Boris Labbé
Trained at the École supérieure d’art de Tarbes and then at the École de cinéma d’animation d'Angoulême, the work of Boris Labbé (1987, FR) quickly toured the world, whether in contemporary art exhibitions, international film festivals, or at audiovisual concerts.
His latest short film The Fall was selected for the Special Screening at the Critics’ Week of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2020 he collaborated with the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj and signed
the video scenography of the show Swan Lake.
His films and video installations have earned him some fifty awards and
distinctions around the world, including the Golden Nica Animation at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz and the Grand Prix at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo.
Between 2023 and 2024, he is developing and carrying out two landmark projects: Ito Meikyū, his first virtual reality project (produced by Sacrebleu Productions) and Glass House, a video scenography in collaboration with composer Lucas Fagin (produced by the Ensemble Cairn).
Artwork
Ito Meikyū
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Interior and exterior, transparency and opacity, exhibitionism and voyeurism, feminine and masculine; all these notions oppose or unite in the infinite cycle of a labyrinth with no exit. Life here is like a loom whose living weft is woven from a myriad of branching threads and paths.
Ito Meikyū is a virtual reality experience that develops around references from Japanese art history and literature (The Fukinuki Yatai, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book) and unfolds as a large sensory fresco with strong emotional potential. A heterogeneous set of drawn, animated and sound scenes are taken from digital material; they recreate a kind of subjective world (inner and outer) in the form of a labyrinth composed of fractal architectures, inhabited by plants, objects, animals, men, women, motifs and calligraphy. The virtual wandering space allows us to access different scenes based on the randomness of our choices: a kind of hide-and-seek game with the universe at the centre of which we are the omniscient spectator.
