Morphosis
Morphosis
an installation by Rocío Álvarez × Interval.ooo
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 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.
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.
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.
