Boris Labbé Ito Meikyu
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Ito Meikyu is a virtual reality experience built around references from Japanese art and literary history (Fukinuki Yatai, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book) and unfolds as a vast sensory fresco with strong emotional potential.
Ito Meikyu presents a heterogeneous collection of drawn, animated and sound scenes, which are taken from the digital material. In a way, it recreates a subjective world in the form of a labyrinth composed of fractal architectures, inhabited by plants, objects, animals, men, women, patterns and calligraphy. It functions like a virtual game of hide-and-seek that audiences can explore freely, guided by the chance of their discoveries.
Starting from his work as a draftsman, Boris Labbé’s practice is characterized by the combination of digital motion-image techniques with those specific to animated cinema. This approach forms an original and vibrant language that questions the relationships between painting and cinema, music and dance, the body and animals, plants and minerals. Labbé creates cinema without direct shooting, actors, characters, or dialogue, offering a narrative open to audience interpretation. Collages and references to art, literature, and philosophy have become essential resources in his audiovisual language.
Ito Meikyu was awarded the Grand Prix – Venice Immersive at the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival.
VENUE:
Escuela de Comercio
DATE:
Thursday, April 30
to Sunday, May 3
SCHEDULE:
11:00 – 14:00 h.
16:00 – 21:00 h.
RUNNING TIME:
20’
LANGUAGE:
no dialogue
