labx labx

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cars and bodies
Biography:  LABX is the name of an artistic group that combines the unique and complementary visions of three individuals: a photographer, a director and videographer, and an architect.  Each with their distinct approach after a period of... MORE
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cars and bodies
Copyright labx labx 2024
Updated Mar 2016
Topics Arts, Community, Environment, Fine Art, Mixed Medium

Photographer Yann Rabanier, architect Thomas Cestia and videographer/director Romain Dussaulx teamed up to create an art project based on the following reflexion : in our day to day lives, ruled by speed and forced pace, what do we truely share ?

In order to live through this quest thoroughly, the three french artist moved to LA for a summer and ventured through this mosaic of districts, endless yet homelike city with its empty streets yet jampacked roads. 

Their work would have to be a reflection of the perception of territory and how it allows (or not) angelinos to connect with each other.

Los Angeles is a city where one does not walk "“ no pedestrians, cars only. The three artists took this everyday space as a standpoint from which to distort reality. In Los Angeles, time and distances are crushed. It conditions the mental, sensitive and personal representation that one may have about the urban environment, and therefore the relation one can have with his own social environment.

How do cars and the imprints they leave influence public space? Do pedestrians belong to Los Angeles? In fact, in what way do bodies, cars and architectures co-exist, link, meet?

The series "˜Cars and Bodies' piles up bodies in small cars to "˜represent the human traffic jam created by individual mooving cells. True emotion is at steak, no photoshoping is used. Real people meet, touch, wait, feel this extraordinary experience of condensing the city's energy into one picture and film.

It is a two-fold work: it is based on a photographic series and a video installation that, put together, form an inseparable unit which creates a complete exhibit. Through this absurd and unreal mise en scène, we also point out the urge to reflect on the necessary changes and evolutions that mobilities and their related human rapports need to undergo.

In the vacuum left by cars' displacements, what do we share today?

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