Ataraxie
By Maxime Houot
Production: Collectif Coin
Kinetic Light & Sound
Step into the stillness and find your Ataraxie (=peace of mind) within the light.
Premiered at SONICA by Cryptic Glasgow
Engineering team : Adrian Badoil, Martin Paris
Technical directors: Pierre Dubois, Nikola Pilepic
Support: La Bifurk
CONCEPT
Ataraxie means ‘peace of mind’. In this installation from Maxime Houot the artist asks us to question what this might mean in a changed and still changing post-pandemic world. A row of lasers fills the space with beams of red light that first form simple crosses, before building up complex, tesseract-like structures. Ataraxie investigates the void of the unknown and asks us whether we might fill it with the comforting and familiar, or find fresh ways to live.
Since 2013, Maxime Houot has created numerous sound and visual pieces presented on the international scene.
Exploring the limits of his own perception, he deploys a practice that is both artisanal and conceptual.
Artisanal since the gesture, the manufacturing, the obsessive accumulation of simple shapes are the bases of his work. His questioning begins in the workshop, by making the device that will support his next creation. Even if the term “Digital Artist” can be used, contact with matter, machines, objects, is fundamental in his work. This artisanal gesture serves as the starting point for a conceptual approach.
SUPPORTED BY
Credits Photographers: Collectif Coin & Quentin Chevrier