Lea Collet
Digitalis - Installation - 2023
présentée dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 25
Installation
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.
Lea Collet
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).
