Morphosis
Designed for public spaces, Morphosis is a colourful invitation to wander and to contemplate.
A sensory and poetic experience somewhere at the crossroads of the intimate and the collective, the tangible and the imaginary.
Morphosis
an installation by Rocío Álvarez × Interval.ooo
Through a series of hypnotic tableaux,
Rocío Àlvarez questions our representations of the body, identity and our relationship
with living beings as much as with algorithms.
Morphosis is a hybrid installation for the public space, a monumental yet inviting device inspired by the principle of the zoetrope: a circular cylinder that creates the illusion of movement through a succession of images - and here augmented with spatialised moving and still images, and sonic landscapes.
Invited by Interval, artist Rocío Álvarez deploys her colourful visual universe combining illustration, watercolour, handmade animation and fragmented narration.
Transformation as a passage between worlds
Hybrid beings, shifting avatars, mutating identities: humanity has always tried to reinvent itself through stories where metamorphosis is a passage between worlds. From legends of humans turning into beasts under the influence of a spell or a deep desire, to contemporary fantasies of merging with machines, the theme of transformation spans the ages. Metamorphosis appears to be both a quest for emancipation and a source of concern.
Today, as the boundary between the real and the virtual fades, our relationship with transformation is evolving. We are both creators and subjects of these changes. Masks are becoming digitalised, identities are fragmenting, and doubles are multiplying.
The installation explores these transitions from one state to another, these thresholds where humans interact with animals, plants, simulacra and algorithms.
Credits
Drawing & animation : Rocío Álvarez
Spatialised composition : Thomas Vaquié & Loran Delforge
Fabrication : Alexandre Liziard, Lara Claes Engineering: Bollinger-Grohmann Hardware: WIP
Interval.ooo: Scenography, Artistic support, Technological expertise, Executive production, Representation
With the financial support of the Imaginaires Publics grant,
an initiative of the government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, operated by ST’ART, in collaboration with WBI.
MORPHOSIS - Technical FAQ
Morphosis is a 360° immersive installation specifically designed for public space and large audiences.
Self-supporting, with no ground anchoring required, it unfolds as a monumental circular structure measuring 9.60 meters in diameter and 5.52 meters in height. Visible from a distance and fully walkable, it invites both circulation and contemplation.
The work has two complementary faces:
By day, it reveals an airy sculptural presence enhanced by an intimate, spatialized sound dimension.
By night, the structure becomes luminous. Video projections transform the whole into a 360° immersive experience, blending still imagery, animation, and moving narrative.
Conceived for large squares, parks, and urban events, Morphosis is robust, modular, and designed for international touring.
Diameter: 9.6 m | Height: 5.5 m
Rocío Álvarez
Illustration & Animation – Morphosis
For Morphosis, Interval collaborates with Brussels-based illustrator, painter and animation filmmaker Rocío Álvarez.
Rocío is an award-winning director of animated short films, with selections and distinctions at major international festivals including Anima, Les Magritte, Kuandu Taiwan and Fantasia Montréal. Her work moves fluidly between hand-drawn animation, painting and large-scale mural interventions, reflecting a strong graphic identity rooted in both narrative and experimentation.
Alongside her animation practice, she creates monumental murals in public space and cultural institutions, developing visual universes that combine precision of line, expressive characters and bold compositions. Her artistic language bridges intimate storytelling and spatial presence, often addressing themes such as human relationships, social dynamics and contemporary mythologies.
For Morphosis, Rocío develops the visual world of the installation, creating the illustrations and animated sequences that form the narrative core of the project. Her drawings operate both as physical printed images by day and as animated projections by night, articulating the hybrid dialogue between handcrafted imagery and digital transformation at the heart of the work.
