Time Machine et la Maison des Corps is an installation based on fourth-dimensional artistic theories. In physics, the fourth dimension is the notion of time added to the notion of space. I'm wondering how to experience this phenomenon ? How to create a machine to travel in the fourth dimension?
I imagined a sphere covered with mirrors inside, into which we could enter and thus discover a multitude of our own reflection, facets of our body, at a single given moment. A sort of spatio-temporal vertigo sets in then.
Optical objects make the visualization of this other dimension possible because they show an image shifted from the present time.
I was inspired by Pawlowski’s book Travel through fourth dimension, who invented the History of the Fourth Dimension. He explains how humans abolished themselves from all material things, even their own bodies. He no longer moves and lives only psychically, leaving his corporeal envelope in a place called « La Maison des Corps » (The House of Bodies). If we like to highlight a travel fantasy in a little known time space, Pawlowski creates a feeling of fear of a world full of houses hiding inactive bodies. Should we see through to the end the construction of this machine? The unfinished installation both highlights this explorer’s desire to discover new universes, while remaining cautious of a reality possibly more frightening than one we find today in each technological advancement.
