A Prediction for Hereafter

TEXTILE & EMBROIDERY

2022

THE CRITICAL INQUIRY LAB

“[...] In the creation of this story I wanted to work by taking the figure of the oracle, as an interpreter of words that would not be mine, that are not human, that come from the machine. How I would interpret and read these words. This text comes to me, which speaks of another space, of not having one's body anymore, of being after death.

The project is a conversation. It is formed by dialogue between me and the artificial intelligences. It reveals the intrication between other-than-human intelligences and their very humain bias and beliefs. Together we build the interpretation of this prediction, with me as a translator, wanting to make these abstract words sensitive and experienceable, to give them human meaning and presence. Even though the story is generating itself continuously and I can never achieve the full interpretation, we continue on this ongoing process, repeatedly feeding and contaminating each other.
In my installation, I propose you to read the prediction that I continue to embroider as the oracle generate the story. And to explore my visual intepretation of this text that could be an afterlife, a virtual hereafter, or a glimpse of a parallel existence where ghosts, remains and second-self entities evolve.”

extract from my performative masterproof, june 2022

Habit(er) l’Espace

PRODUCT DESIGN

2018

ENSAAMA

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Without gravity, the evolution of the body is completely modified, and the human being has to learn again how to move.

I worked on different ways to facilitate body evolution in weightlessness, from anecdotes and realities told by astronauts, to the body and its surroundings.
During my researches, I encounter the notion of ultimate relaxation position, developed by Story Musgrave, American astronaut, who shared his own experience with weightlessness and particularly about the inherent positions only possible in this state. The ultimate relaxation position is only possible when all muscles are completely relaxed and no exterior force applied on the body. In this situation, one does not feel his own body in surrounding space anymore.