For more than twenty years, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain (born in 1974 and 1973) have explored the element of language and the question of time through a multidisciplinary practice. These two Brazilian artists based in Paris draw on their experience as a semiologist-linguist for one and a graphic designer for the other, in order to create installations in which video, sculpture and sound combine. Their works, resulting from both scientific and literary research, are interested in the writing of time, memory and infinity. Revealing multiple influences, from alphabets to constellations through concrete poetry, the duo gives birth to new plastic and narrative forms: “ For us, the distribution of matter in space is something very important in the writing of images and objects in three dimensions. »
The installation imagined for the prize continues this work around time by focusing on two main aspects of their research: codes and the cosmos. Two distant time scales are linked in a video where the oldest images of the universe, the deep fields of distant galaxies and those of flowery fields dating from last spring come together. The material of each image was worked in order to create a visual passage, a circulation between the two temporalities. Also presented is the piece River of Starsthought from ancient names of stars which would have already been born at the beginning of astronomy and reached us. Their writing was translated in a plastic way and the name of each star gave shape to his sculpture. A final creation entitled The Sea of the Moon constitutes a writing in light and sound of the names of different lunar seas, Sea of TranquilitySea of Tranquility, or even Sea of SerenitySea of Serenity. The sounds of the latter move through the installation linking the whole into a global, almost musical composition.
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Marcel Duchamp Prize 2024, the exhibition, from October 2, 2024 to January 6, 2025, Pompidou Center place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris.
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