Geophonie
Geophonie
Jean Dalin
A large-scale fresco bringing drawing and video animation into dialogue, Geophony is an installation commissioned by the Belgian Comic Strip Museum as part of the exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the cult magazine Métal Hurlant, launched in the 1970s by Moebius.
This dynamic fresco is built upon the layering of an original illustration by Jean Dalin—teeming with detail—enhanced through video with vibrant color work and a spatialized, mineral soundscape. Here, the video intervention extends the drawing, activating its strata and unfolding its inner dynamics, creating a dialogue between printed matter and moving image.
The installation offers a geological fiction that is both relic and anticipation. An augmented landscape where matter remembers the future as much as it projects itself into the past.
Geophonie - Comics Museum Brussels
A window opens onto the belly of the world.
A world breathes there—slow, pulsing, mineral. This cave shelters a forgotten future, the remnants of a world that does not yet exist. Everything vibrates with a wordless language, made of pulses, reflections, mineral echoes. Rocks think here. Waters speak.
In this lithic chamber, time spreads out.
It no longer passes; it seeps, settles, coils in on itself. Each layer retains the memory of an era, a breath, a collapse.
Clear, translucent spirits drift through the veins of the terrain. They do not haunt: they watch, they connect. They circulate meaning like water, linking masses, sculpting faults, polishing stone.
Here, nothing is dead, nor alive. Everything is becoming—waiting, germinating into form. The world slowly reshapes itself, in measure with silence. This place acts as a threshold, a fissure in the rock where the breathing of a world yet to come can still be heard.
Credits
Drawing: Jean Dalin
Scenographic concept & production: Interval.ooo
Soundscape: Thomas Vaquié
Jean Dalin
An illustrator and comic book author, Jean Dalin develops a sensitive universe in which drawing becomes both a narrative space and a material presence. He lives and works in Lyon, between rivers and the Monts d’Or, where he navigates between personal projects and collaborations with various agencies and publishing houses.
Born in Nantes in 1993, after training in printmaking and earning a degree in narrative drawing, he co-founded the association Un Fanzine par Mois, an experimental platform through which he refined his practice as an illustrator. After several publications in micro-publishing and the independent scene, his work has appeared in Reliefs, Métal Hurlant, and Kiblind. In 2024, he published his first graphic novel, The Betrayal of Olympus, with Sarbacane.