Acoustic Shadows

STATIC! VIBRATION! ENERGY! HYPNOSIS! DEMONS! A UNIVERSE BORN OF GODS BATTLING IN THE DARK WITH FLICKERING LIGHTS OF COLORED FLAME! BEASTS SHAPING HORIZONS BY THEIR MARCHING STEPS! THE SPINNING GOD HEAD! THE SHIFTING TOTEM ANIMALS! STATIC! VIBRATION! ENERGY!

The nine virtual sculptures underlying vitreous resulted from experimental setups by Robert Seidel for generating three-dimensional clusters of fibrous refractions, as well as the gravitational lensing of different volumetric and chromatic densities. Singular elements gravitate towards each other, accumulating in a gigantic sculptural system, where each entity exists with its own visual axis and vanishing point. The impalpable luminous formations create prismatic interactions between the ridges and plateaux of the main colours floating in front of the infinite violet background.

A room-scale VR creative documentary that uses multi-narrative and volumetric live capture to take the viewer on a journey into the mind of Lisa as she remembers her lost love, Erik. Within an empty void, fragments of past memories appear of their life together.

A modern and gloomy city of skyscrapers works to the rhythm of two pistons. Anonymous stenographers work in the dark offices, butchers deliver fresh meat and clerks, crammed into elevators, wander between the floors of the buildings.

A woman’s sense of self is destroyed upon seeing her friend succumb in the zombie apocalypse.

The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he can now no longer die, yet lacks presence. So the maenads tear him limb from limb... Two thousand years later: An immortal head, disembodied, aware now of the power of the physical form in which it is forever encased. Upon the Templar altar, wise yet carnal, the only way it can now enjoy the idea of a body is through vicarious experience of others enjoying theirs. Thus with the heightened senses remaining in the head, s/he desires to create a new physical vessel.

Because Quebec Sign Language cannot be captured on paper, videography has revealed itself to be the best way to represent this visual language. The first ‘comic strip’ in sign language, the film depicts snatches of conversations between various deaf and hearing protagonists. A visit to a silent world, where the hearing impaired ask us to listen to them.

Atrocity Exhibition

A Draughtsman Illusion

From the primitive touch to a 'twist, press, click'—— Piles of images generate and decay into the soil, they are the real flesh, also the intangible memory.

Doors in our life. Each has a melody, like a music box. They have stories, like a book. They will be opened one by one.

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a mise en abyme: it’s a pure enclosure inside the image world, it’s the Descent into the Maelstrom.

Short experimental video art by Barbara Sykes.

An attempt at “total art” performed during the 2020 lockdown.

Portrait of a catastrophe, these are times of fire.

A combination of painting and contemporary ballet. What happens when the audience and staff have left the exhibition hall and the art begins to live its own life?

Cosmos of paint unleash a storm of color.

Toby and his human are enjoying a peaceful afternoon, but a fleeting flash of light outside the window breaks the harmony. Something has changed.

La Voie de l'Écuyère

A young, wannabe streetwear influencer dying to make an impact on the world gets a lot more than he bargained for when a shy but obsessive fan decides to help him become a star for his own gain at the expense of everyone else involved. Macabre Metrics is an almost feature-length, visually experimental exploration into the world of image culture set in Seoul. Shot entirely on iPhone with animated sequences.