Memory of Brittany No.2

Benjamin Bardou

Artwork Description:

Memory of Brittany No.2 is a work of reminiscence. It is the memory of a place, recalled through volumetric video and point clouds. The work does not seek to document this place as it was, but to give form to the way a place survives in memory. When I try to remember it, what shape does this memory take? Does it have colours? Does it move? Is it stable, or does it constantly dissolve? Through volumetric video capture and the use of point clouds, the place is not represented as a fixed image. It appears instead as unstable matter, made of fragments, densities and movements, close to the way a memory returns to consciousness. I made this work a few days before the birth of my son. In this sense, it is no longer only turned towards the past. It is also a projection towards the future, guided by this thought from Alexander Grothendieck: “It is not enough for the world to be beautiful; one must also deign to rejoice in it.” The work then becomes a memory turned towards the future, as if the recollection of a place already carried within it a wish: that my son may one day, in his turn, encounter the beauty of the world.