Essenomes Project

The Essenomes Project is an innovative and evolving project, in which painting is the origin of an environmental and participative installation around the Essenomes universe. In an organized space, with many other possible layouts (according to the capacity of the site), the civilization of the Essenomes, like a reproduction of our civilization, at the same time tangible and virtual, reveals its ambiguities, between pictorial matter and virtuality, between concerns of the disorders of the world and aspirations for open spaces… Two spaces, a white one, and a black one (white cube/ black box), contain two specific universes. The spectator who enters successively in each space finds himself “submerged” in a whole universe, in the heart of a vision of the contemporary world.

(Textes : Marie Deparis)

White cube
The spectator discovers a new kind of collection of portraits. Over the entire length of the walls, several generations of tribes of Essenomes are stretched. The 50cm x 50 cm pictures, fixed on rails, each one representing an Essenome, allow, like in any picture gallery, to discover the pictorial work of Tigrane.
Profusion, proliferation…The Essenomes, always increasing in number invade space, producing a visual impact which is sufficient unto itself.
Black box
Here, the spectator is going to an entirely black room. He penetrates in a different visual universe, in which the virtuality and the interactivity give a dynamic and participative relation to the work, to the story and to the images. From the start, a sonorous environment surrounds the spectator in a particular atmosphere. Several installations can be organized according to the possibilities of the site :
An interactive wall of images : the spectator, with the console he has in front of him, can create a new “tribal-painting” of twelve Essenomes, that he will be able to record and print. All the combinations, already made or not, are driven by a specific computer program.
A connection to the Website dedicated to the Essenomes
A video wall: on this wall, made up of twelve autonomous fractions, photographs, videos, paintings, become animated on a perpetual rhythm of images of current events, places, landscapes broken with information about the evolution of the migration of the Essenomes… Taking the pulse of the world, this real video creation work, regularly updated, questions the globalized vision we have of the world today, between “mixing” and “zapping”.
A holographic program of projection: the lenticular images offer an unusual three-dimensionality to the Essenomes figures, questioning with this little bit magical device the way we understand virtuality through a hologram.