BIO Sébastien Lafleur explores the visual universe using a multitude of styles and techniques. He displays a marked passion for the artistic material and its potential for metamorphosis. Using a great variety of materials and organic elements, his works foreground several beginnings of narratives to stimulate reflection on the motifs and forces which modulate nature. He constructs immersive spaces in which sculpture, video installation, digital printing and drawing are combined.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE Constantly incorporating new techniques gives formal support to the themes running through Sébastien Lafleur’s work. He is interested in the influence of the digital environment on our perception of the world and its correlation to the natural world. Lafleur explores the fabrication of an Anthropocene landscape and our relations with the virtual environment. His work is defined by multiple manifestations of the image, both digital and organic, involving the exploration of video, digital printing, sculpture and installation.
PROJECT Sébastien Lafleur’s project will take the form of an interactive installation bringing together kinetic sculpture, video art and video mapping projection. Foregrounding the aesthetic and experimental experience offered to built environments by technology, this work will examine our relations with connected spaces, smart homes and architecture in the digital age. It will invite visitors to interact with the space and objects. Using various movement sensors, electronic circuits and touch sensors, it will be possible to modify the visuals and ambience of the installation through contact with objects and by moving about. Interventions will make it possible to set in motion a kinetic sculpture and to transform in real time the sound ambience, the colours of the lights and the visual appearance of the video projections.
