Cosmorama

by Hugo Deverchère, produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains

2017

Cosmorama

by Hugo Deverchère, produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains

2017

Digital art

Video art

Installation

Science and technology

Environment

Science fiction and Fantasy

Digital art

Video art

Installation

Science and technology

Environment

Science fiction and Fantasy

Neuflize OBC Grant 2017

Cosmorama observes the world as it does not appear. Conceived like a journey from our close environment to the distant and unknown horizons of the cosmos, it reveals an imperceptible stratum of the light spectrum. The film questions our common perceptions and representations, it reintroduces notions such as the unknown, the uncertainty and oddity in our relationship with the world.

Screen, Video projector

Suitable for all audiences

English, French

Update : 10/12/2021

Exhibition view - La Mesure du Monde, MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan, France, 2019

Cosmorama, 2017 (© Hugo Deverchère, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, DR)

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Shot in the surroundings of an observatory (in a lava desert where the NASA recently tested Martian rovers) and in a primitive forest which gives us an overview of the state of the world 50 million years ago, the film uses a near-infrared imagery process with which astronomers usually observe the deep reaches of the universe. It also makes audible the light pulsations emitted by distant stars and galaxies by transposing radio-telescopes data into sound. By disrupting our usual spatiotemporal markers, Cosmorama allows the emergence of a sensitive and collective experience of pure perception.