Lea Collet
Digitalis - Installation - 2023
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 25
Unprecedented processes of mutation and mutualism through flowers and artificial intelligence.
Using science fiction as a starting point, this project features a group of nine students from the Marie-Curie secondary school in Tourcoing. Together, the group is trying to mutate, to metamorphose into a flower. They evolve in collaboration with an artificial imagination. They meet scientists in plant biology and observe Brendel's models, reproductions of anatomical flowers made in the 19th century from papier-mâché and other materials.
Collectively, the nine students initiate a process of creating new identities, of human-flower crossbreeding, taking the form of technological creatures. Through filmic images, floral masks, neural networks and 3D modelling, the bodies of the young teenagers metamorphose into hybrid, "botanical-humanoid" entities.
Born in Lyon (1989), Lea Collet lives and works between Roubaix, Aulnay-sous-bois and London. Her practice oscillates between film, performance, installation, video and research. She works in institutional, self-organised and educational contexts. She introduces landscapes and subjects that investigate social relations and augmented affects experienced in and through digital mediation and technological collaboration. She is also a gardening enthusiast interested in the links between botany and technology. She studied for the ArTeC+ -inter-university degree in Paris (DIU) and at the Slade School of Fine art and Camberwell College of Arts in London. Her work has been presented at the Côté Court festival (Paris, 2023), Camden Arts Centre (London, 2022), Manifesta 13, Les Parallèles du Sud, Coco Velten (Marseille, 2021), Espacio Odeon (Bogota, 2020), Weekend (Athens, 2020), Gossamer Fog & Assembly Point (London, 2019).
Production
Partners
Credits
› Assistant caméra : Cyan Jayr
› Caméra : Thomas Weyland
› Ingénieur du son : Karl Levacher, Pierre Dernoncourt, Romain Gontier
› Chef électricien : Nino Vincent
› Assistant électricien·ne : Nathan Pilon
› Stagiaire : Nazif Can Akçali
› Design floral : Renaud Leflamand
› Montage image : Lea Collet
› Entrainement intelligence artificielle : Lea Collet
› Création 3d : Paul Jacques Yves Guilbert
› Musique originale : Minh Boutin
› Étalonnage : Chloé Terren
› Montage son : Nicolas Verhaeghe
› Sound design : Nicolas Verhaeghe
› Assistant montage son : Mondine Ondin
› Mixage : Sébastien Cabour
› Programmation : Sébastien Cabour, Claire Pollet
› Construction : Brice Nouguès
› Conception robot : Julie Machin
› Impression 3d : Sara Ytic
› Assistant construction : Julie Machin
› Assistant costume : Sara Ytic
› Conception parfum : Ilana Kahn
› Accompagnement artistique : Cécile B. Evans
› Chargé.e de production : Elodie Wattiaux
