Marie-Pier Vanchestein

The Rustlings of the Group Are Invented as They Slip Away

This installation features robotic benches that move together in space, following rules inspired by swarm algorithms. Through their movements, both programmed and unpredictable, the benches seek, through a common movement, to escape the gallery. The hum of their motors accompanies this attempt at emancipation, creating a collective murmur.

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The artist explores how a group can exist and evolve in a given space. These exhibition benches, normally immobile and designed to invite viewers to sit, become active elements that interact, adjust, and constantly reorganize.

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By playing with diversion and the principle of emergence, the exhibition questions our relationship with the structures that surround us. Can these benches truly break free from the framework that defines them? Through this poetic staging, the artist invites us to rethink the connections that unite a collective and the spaces it inhabits.

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Exhibition produced as part of the Hexagram-ELEKTRA 2024 call for projects.