Lacunes, video, 4K, 2025 (excerpt)
4K sound film, 10’25, 40-inch screen, music and direction by Thierry Fournier, 2025.
How can we represent the body of flowers, often shown flat in herbariums, drawings or photography? The Lacunes project experiments with delegating this vision to an algorithm, creating photogrammetric scans of flowers in volume. From around 200 photographs of each flower, a program reconstitutes a 3D model, from which these images are then extracted, without retouching.
However, the impossibility of this device to reproduce all the details of the flowers generates gaps, which the program compensates for by creating interpolations of shape and color. A pictorial gesture then appears, in the signature of the algorithm and its own limits in representing reality.
The film re-enacts the non-human nature of this vision, by having a program create a generative path within the 3D model of a flower bush. From a plant, it also becomes a body and a landscape.
Print production: Biennale Siana – Prints: Studio Aza – 3D: Thomas Gendre.
Lacunes, which comprises a total of 75 images and a film, is one of the first works linked to the Commune présence project co-initiated by artists and curators Juliette Fontaine and Thierry Fournier, which aims to develop an artistic and critical practice in relation to a place and its environment – where all the flowers in this project come from.