Be Maybe May

by Olivier Jonvaux, produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio National

2021

Be Maybe May

by Olivier Jonvaux, produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio National

2021

Digital art

Video art

2D/3D digitisation

Installation

Sound experience

Visual arts

Science fiction and Fantasy

Literature

Science and technology

Digital art

Video art

2D/3D digitisation

Installation

Sound experience

Visual arts

Science fiction and Fantasy

Literature

Science and technology

At sunset in a gas station, a white cat walks its territory, expressing its thoughts. His robotics double warns him of a danger and a series of events follow one another where the dream seems to merge with reality.

Screen, Video projector

Suitable for all audiences

11 minute(s)

Multiple languages

Update : 05/03/2024

Be Maybe May (Olivier Jonvaux)

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In a parallel universe where Mies Van der Rohe’s pavilion is transformed into a service station in the middle of the desert, a white cat lives a peaceful life. Its daily existence is built around habits and it is perfectly at ease with that. A disturbing companion, like a maleficent double, warns it of an imminent threat and the reality seems very different. Bunches of grapes placed on a bench evaporate as if by magic, ushering in the threatening arrival of a giant fugu fish. Marble becomes steel, glass becomes fabric, brick becomes wood. About these unexplained phenomena, the cat chats freely in its scatty, casual way. It is determined to stand at the frontier between reality and fiction. A tragi-comic quest for identity, at the intersection of the surrealist worlds of Lewis Carroll, the light of Edward Hopper and the memes of the post-digital age.