Material: Naturally and hand-dyed cotton calicos,hand-made speakers,Arduino and various electrical and electronic components
Exhibited in January 2023 in a deconsecrated church now used as a gallery, A Vivid Green Slowly Turning Into Peach is a site-specific multisensory immersive project. It is freely inspired by mindfulness as well as the confessional found in churches. I wanted to create a space where people can unburden themselves from daily concerns. Merging harmony, imperfection and reverie, this project invites the audience to explore notions of intimacy, introspection, and secrecy, as well as memories. The installation seeks, among other things, to deepen the relationship between scents, place, and materials, reflecting the soul of the church and offering the public an enclosed space allowing a sensory and spiritual connection with one’s inner self.
Combining technology and natural materials, the installation consists of four double layers of cotton calicos and four speakers.
Echoing everyday life, the textiles are naturally hand-dyed with ingredients found in most kitchens (avocado, coffee, tea, wine, brown and red onions). As a result of the natural dyes, the ingredients’ scents impregnate the fibres and enable the public to experience its own olfactory reminiscences.
Inside the installation, I embroidered on each calico a spiral made of electrically conductive cable. Operating thanks to the interaction between an electric current and a magnetic field, the spirals emit sound and turn into speakers. The audience, therefore, finds itself in the middle of a soundscape, murmuring in French and English in an almost unintelligible way my memories, associations of ideas, and everyday thoughts related to the smells and tastes of the ingredients.
