REMINISCENCE
from March 20 to 29, 2025
Benjamin Bardou x Florian Zumbrunn
Rob Scalera x 0xbenj
> press release
REMINISCENCE exhibition presents two digital collaborations, extending a pictorial tradition where sensation and brushstroke are at the heart of expression. The works refer to the restitution of an impression, whether visual or sensory, in the way it was explored by Impressionist and Romantic painters. Digital abstraction absorbs this pictorial sensitivity, in which light and movement play a crucial role.
Benjamin Bardou and Florian Zumbrunn combine their algorithmic and image-processing practices to create a specific series resulting from their collaboration. Rob Scalera and 0xbenj explore, through code, how generative processes translate the alteration and persistence of forms over time.
In his series Memories of an Exhibition, Benjamin Bardou explores the memory of artworks using artificial intelligence as a tool for reminiscence, not recreating the paintings themselves but exploring their visual and color worlds. These interpretations of the brushstrokes of 'masters of painting' are presented through moving and sensorial images. For the exhibition, he created a special work, The Awakening, in which he explored the touch of the painter Gustav Klimt.
Another exclusive work from the artist’s new series, Studies of Artificial Landscapes explores forms born from "artificial imagination," as the artist puts it. Like plein air painters such as Eugène Boudin, fascinated by the shifting light and colors of a landscape, this project seeks to reveal the geography of latent space. Sketching emerges as the most fitting technique to capture its subtle variations.
Florian Zumbrunn, a creative developer and multimedia artist, explores the power of code to create evolving compositions. He uses algorithms that evolve over time, incorporating elements of chance and unpredictability into his generative visuals. In the Brise d’automne series, Florian Zumbrunn mixes digital and tangible approaches. By incorporating printing and manual touch-ups, he explores the boundary between coding practice and artistic gesture.
The collaboration between Benjamin Bardou and Florian Zumbrunn is part of a shared quest to give tangible materiality through a digital medium. It gives birth to a hybrid series where Bardou revisits Zumbrunn’s compositions, interpreting them as an evanescent material.
This exploration of ephemeral digital material continues in the collaboration between Rob Scalera and 0xbenj, who question how algorithms can translate the fragility of memory. Their series what lingers within, created in p5.js, generates an infinite number of visual variations from the same set of mathematical rules, in the same way time alters and reconfigures images. Inspired by Masaru Fujii's work on the erosion of forms, they create moving compositions where rigid geometric structures slowly dissolve, evoking the gradual fading of memories.
REMINISCENCE exposes visual narratives that question the very nature of an image in perpetual mutation. The digital material transforms into a continuous flow of shapes and colors, oscillating between persistence and erasure. The exhibition sketches a territory in which the image alters and is reborn in new forms, obeying the principles of universal transformations.
> Benjamin Bardou x Florian Zumbrunn on objkt
> Rob Scalera x 0xbenj on fxhash
