VINCENT CERAUDO Portfolio for Christina Mackie Fondazione Antonio Rati 2018
The Out Of Body HD video transferred on 35 mm 12 min 2017 The Out of Body show the artist sleeping in his studio in a meditative states inducing an Out of Body Experience. This recorded experience through the videocamera project the viewer into a a subjective hallucinated view. It seems the camera is scanning the space of the artist studio as is own body, disorienting the viewer progressively. The camera floats and move freely exploring at the same time the physical space of the studio in all details as it appears also to journey towards the artist self s centre. The artist is transported somewhere else in the studio outside of his own body, immersed in this floating realitiy, as if the destination itself was the journey.
Test Strips B/w photograms on negatives scanned and enlarged size variable 2017 Photograms on negatives made of differents drugs which have the specificities to reproduce or to induce an Out Of Body Experience.
The Observatory video 4k 18 min 2016 https://vimeo.com/169589687 password : chine
The Observatory video 4k 18 min 2016
Searching for the inaccessible slide projection photographs, extract taken from the series 2015 On April 19, 2015, I went into the Gurbantunggut desert in the north west China. I traveled from Urumuqi, accompanied with a guide following an itinerary on 600 km keeping the North East direction in order to arrive to the coordinates of the terrestrial pole of inaccessibility 46 16 58,8 N.A 88 7 58.8 E which corresponding to the most remote point of the oceans on earth. I pursued the end of the travel by foot when the road does not permitted me to keep going more far away, I walked during fifteen kilometers until arriving to the area which correspond to the physical retranscription of the coordinates 46 16 58,8 N.A 88 7 58.8 E. A trailer of the travel for the agency which financed my project and a series of photographs taken during the exploration constitute the form of this experience.
Searching for the inaccessible 46 16 58,8 N.A 88 7 58.8 E Colour photograph 40x 60 cm 2015
Physic / Psychic Book scanned and enlarged size variable 2015
Absynth Opium and Magic Installations ( 3m x 1m80x 2m20) Tubular, B/w Photographs size variable 2015
Absynth, Opium and magik Trailer video,slide projection photographs) extract taken from the series 2015 Absynth Opium and Magic Details and view of installation, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille. 2015
Paris City Ghost vidéo 4K 5 min 2015 After the purest coincidence of discovering in the suburbs of Hanghzou, a replica of Paris as an utopian post-modernism architectural project, I decided to live for a week in this replica city located more than 11000km away from Paris. Using the drone camera technology which remind surveillance and control, I explored the physical and psychological architectural limits of the place. The video documents the exploration of this empty city, as if I was going through the double or an abandoned future of my own life. https://vimeo.com/138388303 password : chine
The distance between the viewer and I (part1) Installation of two vidéos- 9 37 each 2014 On Thursday, April 24, 2014, a person with ability of extrasensory perception who can locate distant places is invited in a studio. He tries for almost two hours to locate a remote location in which the artist let any prior information (Only the artist has the knowledge of the target location). A video recording of the remote viewer (person trying to locate) and target leagues recorded in live constitute the form of this experience. https://vimeo.com/153264508
The distance between the viewer and I (part1) Installation of two vidéos- 9 37 each 2014 view at the MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), Melbourne.
The distance between the viewer and I (part2) Installation of two vidéos- 9 37 each 2014 On Thursday, April 24, 2014, a person with ability of extrasensory perception who can locate distant places is invited in a studio. He tries for almost two hours to locate a remote location in which the artist let any prior information (Only the artist has the knowledge of the target location). A video recording of the remote viewer (person trying to locate) and target leagues recorded in live constitute the form of this experience. https://vimeo.com/123480860
The distance between the viewer and I (part2) Installation of two vidéos- 9 37 each 2014 view at the MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), Melbourne.
The Walk B/w Photographs and texts. 6x8 cm each 2014 The Walk is a series of photographs taken during a silencious night walk the 21 of July 2013 in Genova Italy. Ten years ago, the same night police repression killed activists during riots G8. The Walk started from the historic heart of the city until the place where the student Carlo Giuliani was killed. From dusk to dawn, these photographs taken as a ritual act of reactivation document a certain immersive aspect of this moment view at the Museo d Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova.
Coruscation B/w photographs 40x60 cm 2014 Coruscation is a series of photographic experimentation based on the direct effect of light on the surface of photogra- phic paper, burning it by sparking.
Half counscious B/W photographs 30x40 cm 2011/2014 Half-counscious is a work where I photographed my domestic objects at home mostly late at night, in sleep states when the perception of these becomes modified. How do these objects manage to attract us? or for some of them, how do they haunt us? Using my memory, I mash them up together, sometimes I fall sleep before, it s a somnambular approach of sculpture.
Telepathics objects. B/w photographs. sample taken from the series. 2012/2014 These pictures results of a photographic work consisting in an inventory of all ordinary objects in the world transformed by telepathy( In a scientific context of research). These photographs shows the produce of ordinary objects modified during Psychokinesis and telekinesis experiments on an adolescent at the Institut Metapsychique International in Paris.
Poltergeist B/w photography and headphones diffusing the sound recorded iside the house 120x 140 cm
My research explore the border which divide the psychic reality from the objective one. It is an attempt to catch the incertitude which forms our reality. I am interested in the moments when the reality slip through our hands, when reality and imagination amalgamate. I try to initiate experiences by playing with these moments or to reconstitute them in order to explore them, furthermore to confront them to our ordinary perception. With the recording possibilities of photography, video and sound I try to capture the interferences and the gaps in order to questions reality and its perceptible and acceptable boundaries. I recall what comes from these moments of these «ethereal recordings». These moments of bearings loss and troubles, allow us to push aside any form of control to render a space unstable and uncertain in order to make it loose its apparent reality. Books, other philosophic, literary, esoteric or scientific reviews, music and other things created by artists (or not) are my principal inspiration. I am fascinated by facts that are simply excluded from our conception of reality, I think they probably belong to some different worlds or states of perception or even to some unknown to us. From the camera angle to the way I install the images in the exhibition space, I use photography and video to blur the lines between fiction and reality.