Horizon vertical

by Simon Leroux and Studio courte échelle

2022

Horizon vertical

by Simon Leroux and Studio courte échelle

2022

Immersive experience

Digital art

Innovative book

Artist’s book

Augmented reality

Visual arts

Immersive experience

Digital art

Innovative book

Artist’s book

Augmented reality

Visual arts

Drawn in gray pencil elements of urban decor work as the starting points for so many micro-narratives. Simon explored these possibilities of fiction in augmented reality, designing animations that overlap with samples. By their delicate offsets, these sequences affirm the infra-ordinary poetry of stories without words whose window is both the surface and the screen. In dialogue with the artist, the studio Courte échelle has imagined an edition that incorporates and extends these issues.

Smartphone, Tablet

Suitable for all audiences

Without dialogue

Update : 07/08/2024

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Horizon Vertical is a book-object based on the eponymous project led by Simon Leroux. The artist collects & draws windows and lampposts. The drawings function as micro-stories starting points, furthered by a layer of animations in augmented reality. Through delicate shifts, the drawings become both screen & surface for the infra-ordinary.

Leporello with multiple entrances, the book was crafted as a nonlinear device that invites the spectator to invent his own path. When unfolded, the pages evoke facades, creating spaces with openings & punctuation. Using the Artivive app, the windows come to life within this little paper theater.

Screenprinted on cretonne, the blue cover delimits the space of the grayscale narratives. Drawings inside are pigment-ink printed on Fedrigoni Old Mill White 250g/m2. The ink emanates from the paper fiber like a tattoo from the skin. Old Mill offers the perfect balance: discreet setting for the stories within, it brings its body & character to the project.