Archive 2020 KubaParis

SUBTERRANEA

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (Koalea), 2020, LCD screens, Volcanic rocks, electronics, aluminum, ABS, 90x92x32cm

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (Lantern #3), 2020, LCD screens, Volcanic rocks, Manzanita wood, electronics, aluminum, ABS, 48x40x112cm

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (Lantern #3), 2020, detail

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (left to right: SANYGA, SURYA, TENA), 2020, LCD screens, Volcanic rocks, electronics, aluminum, ABS, variable dimensions

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (left to right: SURYA, TENA), 2020, LCD screens, Volcanic rocks, electronics, aluminum, ABS, variable dimensions

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (TENA), 2020, LCD screen, Volcanic rock, electronics, aluminum, ABS, 50x32x122cm

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (SANYGA), 2020, LCD screen, Volcanic rock, electronics, aluminum, ABS, 48x32x140cm

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (ISLE), 2020, LCD screen, Volcanic rock, electronics, aluminum, ABS, 60x38x80cm

Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets (ISLE), 2020, detail

Nicolas Sassoon, SUBTERRANEA, 2020, exhibition view (INDEX, AVENUE, SKYLIGHT))

Nicolas Sassoon, TEXTURES, 2020, floor projection, digital animation, variable dimensions

Nicolas Sassoon, SKYLIGHT, 2018, Digital animation, multi-channel, screens, variable dimensions

Nicolas Sassoon, POSTER, 2020, laser engraving on durablack aluminum, 47x57cm

Nicolas Sassoon, FRAME, 2020, laser engraving on durablack aluminum, 52x62cm

Nicolas Sassoon, SPEAKER, 2020, laser engraving on durablack aluminum, 47x57cm

Nicolas Sassoon, GEAR, 2020, laser engraving on durablack aluminum, 100x52cm

Location

Galerie Charlot, 47 Rue Charlot, Paris, France

Date

28.10 –27.02.2021

Curator

Valentina Peri, Valerie Hasson-Benillouche

Photography

Nicolas Sassoon

Subheadline

SUBTERRANEA - Nicolas Sassoon's first solo show at Galerie Charlot Paris - includes tree of his latest projects : THE PROPHETS, a series of sculptures as poetic interfaces between computer technology and geological forces. CORES (in collaboration with Rick Silva, artist and Professor at the University of Oregon) a series of digital animations based on high resolution 3D scans of mineral specimens. INDEX, AVENUE, SKYLIGHT, a series of monumental animations and prints referencing underground venues in Vancouver BC, Canada. A publication with texts by Elise Hunchuck (researcher and designer) & Jussi Parikka (media theorist and author of Geology of Media, 2015), Nora O Murchú (director of Trasnmediale), Valentina Peri (director of Galerie Charlot) and Nicolas Sassoon accompanies the exhibition. Editions Galerie Charlot.

Text

Password for video: holding (video can be made public) CORES Nicolas Sassoon & Rick Silva 8 Digital animations, 4K, 15minutes 8 seconds, 2020-ongoing No sound CORES is an ongoing collaborative project initiated in 2019 by artists Nicolas Sassoon (Vancouver, BC) and Rick Silva (Eugene, OR) that focuses on 3D renderings of altered geological specimens. Sassoon and Silva share an ongoing theme in their individual practices; the depiction of wilderness and natural forms through computer imaging. Created by merging their respective fields of visual research, CORES features different types of high-resolution 3D scanned rocks inhabited by unnatural substances and enigmatic structures. The project draws from various sources ranging from climate studies to science-fiction to create 3D generated video works reflecting on contamination, mutation and future ecologies. Additionally, the project is complemented with an essay written by researchers and writers Elise Hunchuck & Jussi Parikka, titled “Eight fragments on Eight Stones” - published in the publication accompanying the exhibition SUBTERRANEA.

Valentina Peri