The Curious and the Talkers
The Curious and the Talkers is a sound and light installation whose soundtrack is a discussion between a woman and a man. This exchange is punctuated by a narrator’s comments on the light and distant visions, as well as by parasitic noises from cars, birds, etc. A projection of RGB (red, green, blue) colours whose superimposition creates a white light accompanies the soundtrack. This projection without any image evokes the notion of “expanded cinema” as defined by Gene Youngblood in the 1970s: it is about pushing back the boundaries of cinema to participate in an extension of consciousness. The soundtrack of the work broadcasts the interviews between Meris Angioletti and Ingo Swann, the creator of "remote viewing", a technique for viewing at a distance. The artist interviewed him during her research on the links between light, art, and telepathy. These interviews gave rise to conversations that she tried to reconstruct before having them acted out by actors. As for the narrator, he evokes the thoughts of the musician Thomas Wilfred and the architect Claude Bragdon, founders of the Art Institute of Light in New York, an experimental space dedicated to light.
Text written by Élise Vassiliadis-Poirey as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (France)
from 14 Oct to 23 Dec 2016
Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Berlin (Allemagne)
from 28 Apr to 26 May 2012
La Galerie - Centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-Le-Sec (France)
from 17 Sep to 19 Nov 2011
Fondation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (Italie)
from 24 Mar to 05 Sep 2010
Meris Angioletti mélange divers univers et influences dans son travail, qu’il s’agisse d’installations lumineuses et sonores, de diaporamas ou de photographies. Elle s’inspire autant des premières formes d’abstraction que des sciences cognitives, de la psychologie que des croyances ésotériques. Dans ses œuvres, elle cherche à traduire des processus psychiques parfois encore inexpliqués, par exemple la création d’images mentales, l’intuition ou encore la libre association d’idées. Dans certains de ces travaux, Meris Angioletti s’attarde plus sur la recherche sur le langage, avec du texte présent sous forme de voix, de notes, d’hypertexte, de traductions, de chiffres en mouvement et de souvenirs en dialogue, entre autres.
