Scènes de ville
Jùlia Lema Barros
Video mapping
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Fri. 8 and Sat. 9 Nov. 2024 7pm > 11pm
Place d’Albertas Aix-en-Provence Free admission
Programme presented as part of the Biennale d’Aix
The “Scènes de Ville” (Scenes of the City) video mapping offers an immersive artistic experience in Aix-en-Provence. Video projections and sound installations across the city’s façades combine reality with the captured essence of the surroundings to create a unique atmosphere. Each projection replicates a specific point in time, providing an immersive experience that combines reality, memories and emotions.
Artistic creation meets city heritage, turning façades into vibrant canvases filled with visual and acoustic narratives. This nocturnal initiative redefines the urban experience, providing a new perspective for residents and visitors alike. By exploring the links between sound, imagery and interactive technology, this project involves the audience in the story of the city using a Kinect camera. Interactivity generates an emotional connection, prompting reflection on urban history, culture and identity. These scattered nocturnal displays generate unexpected encounters, bringing to light the memories and ghosts of the city.
“Scènes de Ville” bridges the gap between inside and outside, and between past and future. An invitation to reflect on the history, culture and identity of the city, all while exploring innovative ways of conceiving pleasurable experiences in the digital age. The project serves as a reminder that the city is far more than a physical structure. Indeed, it is a living entity shaped by the shared narratives of its inhabitants over time and space.
(Linking artistic creation to the city’s heritage, this mapping uses a Kinect camera to transform facades into living canvases, involving the public and fusing reality, memories and emotions. This nocturnal intervention redefines the urban experience, offering a new perspective to residents and visitors alike).
Jùlia Lema Barros
Júlia Lema Barros, multimedia artist, unveils her artistic universe through an immersive exploration of sound and the strangeness of fiction. Born in Lisbon in 1997, she currently lives and works between Lisbon, Aix-en-Provence (France) and Bavaria (Germany). Her artistic practice revolves around sound and video projections, immersing viewers in sensory experiences of space and its memories. Her creations unfold in spaces inhabited by the tension between reality and fiction, capturing the very essence of the uncanny.
She was recently awarded top Portuguese Emerging Art and is a Resident in the international 7thex program. In addition to exhibitions and artist residencies, her professional experience includes creating workshops and taking part in courses and conferences on the importance of new media, such as Artissima, Turin 2018, CIVIS Europe at Sapienza University, Rome 2022 and Drawing Room, Lisbon, among others.
Credits & mentions
A creation co-produced by Chroniques, Biennial of digital Imaginaries as part of the CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS Platform and 6MIC.
Hexalab – Technical partners
Creative assistance: Mathieu Grizzard , Atelier LBCB Architecture.
