Installation

On the way out, the space scientist

Véronique Béland

City Hall

Thursday
28
March
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Sunday
31
March
From March 28 to 31
Thursday
28
March
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10:00
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8:00 AM - 6:00 PM / Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM and 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
2024

The creative exploration of spacecraft, where artificial intelligence reimagines their design based on CNES archives from the 1960s, positions the work of Véronique Beland as a contemporary oracle. This generative installation features a robotic arm capable of reproducing, in real time, the diagrams conceived by the neural network using a felt-tip pen on paper. In doing so, it offers us an innovative perspective on the evolution of space technologies, bridging the gap between historical engineering data and the speculative potential of modern machine learning algorithms.

Véronique Béland

Born in Quebec, Canada, Véronique Béland has lived in France since 2010, where she graduated from Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (Michael Snow class, 2010-2012). She also holds a Master’s degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Her artistic practice, which straddles the line between media arts and literature, focuses on phenomena that are elusive at a human scale, in a constant attempt to examine what appears empty in order to reveal its content. Through various translation or transcoding protocols that draw on both the worlds of art and science, her works seek to bridge the gap between the perceptible and the imperceptible, giving rise to a specific form of narrative.

Since 2005, her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Spain, and Portugal). She has also received numerous excellence awards and various research grants. She has led several residency missions and arts and cultural education projects both in France and abroad.

In 2014, she co-authored the book of photographic correspondence "Elles [collectionnent] des mondes" with Catherine Tremblay, published by éditions du Renard. She is also the author of the poetry collection "Le vide de la distance n’est nulle part ailleurs" (2016) and the book "Malgré les collines - égarements cartographiques dont vous êtes le héros" (2017), both published by éditions sun|sun.

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