Véronique Béland
Originally from Quebec (Canada), Véronique Béland lives in France, where she graduated from Le Fresnoy in 2012. Engaged in a reflexion on the autonomous machine as a reflexive and creative entity, her artistic practise is interested in elusive phenomena on a human scale. Through various protocols of translation or transcoding, which summon both the worlds of art and science, her works seek to make contact between the perceptible and the imperceptible, from which a certain form of narration emerges. Since 2005, her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Japan, and many countries in Europe.
Recombinaison
This interactive work invites the audience to place their hand for a few seconds on a touch sensor connected to a meteorite. The viewer then receives a message that is specially dedicated to them, a random text generated by the fluctuation of radio waves from the cosmos.
It stems from the installation "This is Major Tom to Ground Control" (2012) where this random text generator operates continuously. With "Recombination," it is rather the presence of the visitor that gives voice to the Universe; it is the contact with this object once present in interplanetary space that allows for the production of this spatial poetry.
