Video, 4K, 2ch sound, 20’, direction and music Thierry Fournier, 2022
Created in the frame of the group show Supplementary Elements, Université de Strasbourg, 2022, curator Emeline Dufrennoy
The video The Unknownexplores the ideologies conveyed by the market economy on science and research, particularly through image banks.
A generative programme endlessly loops stock videos evoking science: laboratories, researchers, etc. Their smooth, interchangeable, technicist and falsely inclusive aesthetic could just as easily apply to companies or start-ups. These images, stripped of reality and any conflict, convey an ideology of progress, efficiency and performance. The film superimposes sentences that question these videos. What is the impact of these images? How do they contribute to a collective imagination of science and society’s expectations?
The Unknown gave also rise to an installation: L’Insu
The Unknown was created in 2022 for the exhibition Supplementary Elements at the University of Strasbourg, curated by Emeline Dufrennoy. Borrowing from the codes of advertising, the installation of the work in Strasbourg, on a giant LED screen in a shop window, opposite the tramway and at the foot of the Doctoral School, reinforces the public dimension of this questioning.