2014

Yoann Lelong

« While filming, I realized that people on board are at the same time very independant, and very connected. »


Translate the infinitesimal into a totality

Yoann Lelong : artiste en résidence sur tara

After dropping out of graduate studies in quantum physics, Yoann decided to embark on a personal research aimed at finding out who we really are. Very quickly he became the object of his own experimentation.

Yoann Lelong

“Lors de la résidence sur Tara des Embiez à Antibes, j’ai perçu la répétition des « During the residency aboard Tara, from Embiez to Antibes, I saw the repetition of the crew’s gestures as a gradual process aimed at translating the infinitesimal into a totality. Indeed, the days were punctuated by the realization of scientific protocols.  A succession of a set of gestures fell into place. Each day the crew sampled and segmented the Mediterranean Sea in order to extrapolate its entirety. I thought of my work as a repetitive process evolving between segmentation and globalization, between perception and conceptualization. »

Discover some of his creations inspired by life on board Tara:

Œuvre de Yoann Lelong
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Œuvre de Yoann Lelong
© Yoann Lelong
Œuvre de Yoann Lelong
© Yoann Lelong
Œuvre de Yoann Lelong
© Yoann Lelong
Œuvre de Yoann Lelong
© Yoann Lelong
Œuvre de Yoann Lelong
© Yoann Lelong

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