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Art & Design

Videos Lustre installation

A grand chandelier composed of 100 latest-generation multimedia cell phones seems to escape from a braid of black electric cables. An original video with its own proper sound track is presented in continuity on the screen of each of these cell phones. The video image evokes a fundamental subject: the body and the body system. Filmed as close as possible to bodies and around the bodies, this novel, almost pictorial approach tends to recreate all the dimensions possible in an examination of the folds and of the skin of the human body".

"The Videos Lustre installation gathered 100 new generation mobile phones broadcasting 100 of Beatrice's videos. Embodying the form of a chandelier (Lustre) each mobile phone hangs at a sight level so as to allow the public to appreciate every single video". An interesting and strangely beautiful concept.

Illustrating the notions of intimacy and immediacy, the cell phone is,
in a sense, a third eye for Beatrice Valentine Amrhein. The low level of quality it implies changes our perception of the very subject. More than a
communication tool, these new generation mobiles allow us to
capture our own environment (intrusive eye) as well as being a part
of us (hand extension).

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