2023
animation video
1’ 25’’ loop
animation video
1’ 25’’ loop
Many time, when we find ourselves in a urban place, we dream about wide open spaces and our imagination travels in dimensions that are far in time and space.
Imagination is the only place where we all are free from rules, space and time and it often starts when we fin ourselves in a familiar place, just like when we are walking in a city and we look throught houses’ windows.
In Vicariance (Amsterdam windows) we see the exterior of an apartment with typical dutch architecture: the brick wall, a flower bed with plants and a large window. Beyond it, a fan moves curtains and an endless purple landscape stretches out.
What Alain Berthoz calls vicariance “are the worlds that man invents in the reality of everyday life, transforming it according to his own desires. They are the worlds that the imagination shapes in novels and narrative invention. They are also the worlds that we can access with modern imaging techniques, and they are the imaginary worlds called virtual (...). Thanks to this digression through the unreal, the brain becomes not only a simulator, an emulator, but also an interpreter, a creator.” [Alain Berthoz, La Vicariance: Le cerveau créateur de mondes, 2015].
Imagination is the only place where we all are free from rules, space and time and it often starts when we fin ourselves in a familiar place, just like when we are walking in a city and we look throught houses’ windows.
In Vicariance (Amsterdam windows) we see the exterior of an apartment with typical dutch architecture: the brick wall, a flower bed with plants and a large window. Beyond it, a fan moves curtains and an endless purple landscape stretches out.
What Alain Berthoz calls vicariance “are the worlds that man invents in the reality of everyday life, transforming it according to his own desires. They are the worlds that the imagination shapes in novels and narrative invention. They are also the worlds that we can access with modern imaging techniques, and they are the imaginary worlds called virtual (...). Thanks to this digression through the unreal, the brain becomes not only a simulator, an emulator, but also an interpreter, a creator.” [Alain Berthoz, La Vicariance: Le cerveau créateur de mondes, 2015].
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