Maéva Sanz
Pursuit, 2022
Residences Art Explora x Artagon
To coincide with the transformation of Hangar Y into a cultural and events venue, 10 young, recently graduated artists have been invited by Art Explora and Artagon to reuse materials from the hangar's construction site to create works of art, during a residency in September 2022.
Maéva Sanz
Pursuit, 2022
multi-screen installation, variable dimensions
Description of the work
In her work, Maéva Sanz explores alternative ways of making images, posing as an inventor of new videographic devices. Following a low-tech logic that runs counter to the technological overkill that inundates our screens, she returns to the original applications of the airship, envisaging it as an object of observation that enables us to elevate our gaze and gain perspective on our environment.
Diverted from their original military application on the battlefield, helium balloons here become experimental vehicles for a camera and on-board telephones, allowing the gaze of their lens to glide over the architecture under construction at Hangar Y. The aesthetic produced by the fragility of the device evokes that of CCTV images that have escaped from their usual anchorage point.
Maéva Sanz works regularly with Elie Bouisson to produce works in which the process of fabrication proves to be as important as the resulting image. This multi-screen installation illustrates both artists' taste for experimentation and questions the linear construction of time.
Biographyof the artist
Maéva Sanz is a French artist who lives and works in Pantin. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy in 2021. She works with Elie Bouisson, who lives and works between Paris and Strasbourg. He graduated from Hear Strasbourg in 2020.
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