Robert Turner Collective
Exsiccata
Multimedia Installation
algorithmic abstractions
Exsiccata consists of a collection of around 60 individual squares containing hybrid images based on trees and branches. Some of the images are pigment-printed, others are projected, some evolve slowly, others remain still; most are a mixture of these possibilities. The work deals with a number of related concepts that naturally conflict: the physical and the virtual, the immobile and the evolving, the existing and the imaginary, the real and the false. Our intention is to blur the lines between these oppositions in order to question our relationship to these concepts and our ability to distinguish between them. The work can be viewed in detail - each individual image can be seen in isolation, but the whole wall forms a landscape in itself. The process of hybridisation is based on the algorithmic abstraction of the images.
Bios
The Robert Turner Collective is an artistic collaboration founded in Geneva in 2019 that brings together the two mathematicians Louis-Hadrien Robert and Paul Turner. Maintaining an aesthetic, sensitive and human approach, the collective explores the nature of the image in the age of computers. They play with the mathematical structure of digital images to break them down, recompose them and construct still or animated visual works that are often abstract but emotional. The collective works in a variety of creative fields, including audiovisual installations, performances, prints, videos and set design, often in collaboration with other artists. The relationship between space and time is at the heart of the collective's work.
Paul grew up in New Zealand and now lives in Geneva. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and has worked in Scotland, Germany, France and Switzerland.
Louis-Hadrien grew up in Paris and lives in Clermont-Ferrand. He holds a doctorate from the University of Paris and has worked in Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Bios
The Robert Turner Collective is an artistic collaboration founded in Geneva in 2019 that brings together the two mathematicians Louis-Hadrien Robert and Paul Turner. Maintaining an aesthetic, sensitive and human approach, the collective explores the nature of the image in the age of computers. They play with the mathematical structure of digital images to break them down, recompose them and construct still or animated visual works that are often abstract but emotional. The collective works in a variety of creative fields, including audiovisual installations, performances, prints, videos and set design, often in collaboration with other artists. The relationship between space and time is at the heart of the collective's work.
Paul grew up in New Zealand and now lives in Geneva. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and has worked in Scotland, Germany, France and Switzerland.
Louis-Hadrien grew up in Paris and lives in Clermont-Ferrand. He holds a doctorate from the University of Paris and has worked in Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg and Switzerland.