Mathilde Reynaud
Lemna - Film - 12min - 2023
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 25
Film
In a limpid, suspended, almost artificial atmosphere, Matilda 1 and Matilda 2 suggest the story of 19th-century English and American botanists in their observation of the plant world. Their dialogues born from the study of plants intertwine with the technical language of the 3D software user; they bring out a common sensibility shared between these scientific and digital practices under the sign of feminist empowerment. They carry the history of these emancipated women, those past and those to come.
In the course of their exchanges, Matilda 1 and Matilda 2 are contaminated by a green fluidity in their thoughts and guided towards the depths of the marshes by computer-generated images that melt their bodies into a strange and luminescent environment.
Mathilde Reynaud
Mathilde Reynaud, born in 1994, lives and works in Lille. She explores 3D computer graphics and its links with video games, video and VR. She approaches this technique as a form of empowerment. Her work examines our relationship with real and virtual environments and the narratives they inspire, through fictions that question otherness, science fiction and nature.
