VR POINT: ITO MEIKYŪ /

VR POINT: ITO MEIKYŪ /

VR POINT: ITO MEIKYŪ

Boris Labbé, FR/LU, 2024, 20', bd

Ito Meikyu is a virtual reality experience that develops around references from Japanese art history and literature (The Fukinuki Yatai, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book) and unfolds as a large sensory fresco with strong emotional potential. A heterogeneous set of drawn, animated and sound scenes are taken from digital material; they recreate a kind of subjective world (inner and outer) in the form of a labyrinth composed of fractal architectures, inhabited by plants, objects, animals, men, women, motifs and calligraphy. The virtual wandering space allows us to access different scenes based on the randomness of our choices: a kind of hide-and-seek game with the universe at the centre of which we are the omniscient spectator.

Boris Labbé (1987, France), former student of the School of Animated Film of Angoulême, has created works that have been seen around the world, in contemporary art exhibitions, international film festivals and audiovisual concerts. He has received over fifty awards, including the Animafest Zagreb Grand Prix and the Golden Nica Award at Ars Electronica.

Free entrance.

In collaboration with the French Institute in Slovenia.