Biography
Through our immersive installations combining volume and image, our collective Bones and Clouds explores the phenomena of perception as a means of self-knowledge.
Our installations are composed of materials such as glass, mesh, ceramics, stone, and video. These materials contrast with each other around points of tension that the video brings into dialogue. The video evokes time that is offered and then vanishes, impermanence, and presence that is captured in the moment. Images of a constantly renewed breath using both generative art and the capture of natural elements and details of the human body.
Our work focuses on universal human experiences such as birth, death, bodily sensations, the development of consciousness, what makes us human, and what connects us to the entirety of life.
We live in an increasingly dematerialized world where the lack of air, the feeling of being “out of breath,” is becoming a constant, reflecting our ecosystems. So what space is left for humans to pause, fill their lungs and souls with fresh air?
Through our breathing and meditation practices, we observe that everything around us breathes and resonates in interdependence. Breathing, a crucial element in human self-awareness, can lead to altered states of consciousness by reconnecting us to our deepest selves. Through breathing, our view of the world and ourselves can change. Drawing on Asian and alchemical spiritual traditions, mythologies, cosmogonies, and research in depth psychology, neuroscience, and quantum physics that confirms the knowledge of the ancients, we offer viewers a direct experience by addressing their being through the senses.
The darkening of spaces, which encourages a return to intimacy, calm, and introspection, is the initial condition that allows this passage, this shift to this “Elsewhere.” This “Elsewhere” within oneself, revealed by light, predisposes one to encounter the unexpected. In this darkness, the transparency of the glass bursts forth, its fragility becomes palpable, and it holds up a mirror to our own vulnerability.
Our collective, Bones and Clouds, seeks to create a link between heaven and earth, the subtle and the dense, inviting everyone to reconnect with themselves, guided by openness and fragility.
Kim kototamaLune
Artiste plasticienne
Jean-Benoist Sallé
Plasticien - Vidéaste
Stéphane Baz
Réalisateur - Vidéaste