Pangea
Description
By consulting a reconstructed map of the supercontinent Pangea, juxtaposing Nepal, Antarctica, and Africa, SImon Rouby has developed a fictional universe: a world in full geological disruption, echoing the stakes of the «Anthropocene».
The installation is an immersive experience, at the heart of fragments of moving landscapes represented by three-dimensional captures of the Upper Mustang region in Nepal, the sub-Antarctic islands of Kerguelen, and Northern Nigeria.
Context
Pangea is a work between cinema and visual arts, initiated as a guest at Villa Medici in Rome in 2017, then continued on the Archipelago of Kerguelen as part of the Atelier des Ailleurs and in Nigeria in June 2018. It is an evolutionary installation whose form is never identical from one exhibition to another. Pangea will also take the form of an animated feature film in 2021-2022, the second of Simon Rouby after Adama.
Extract
Themes
- Anthropocene (current geological era, marked by the impact of human activities on the terrestrial ecosystem)
- geology, climate
Contents
- video loop
- sculptures of landscape fragments scanned and reprinted in 3D color
Techniques
- photogrammetry, 3D scan technique from photographs
- 3D printing
- clouds points
Description
By consulting a reconstructed map of the supercontinent Pangea, juxtaposing Nepal, Antarctica, and Africa, SImon Rouby has developed a fictional universe: a world in full geological disruption, echoing the stakes of the «Anthropocene».
The installation is an immersive experience, at the heart of fragments of moving landscapes represented by three-dimensional captures of the Upper Mustang region in Nepal, the sub-Antarctic islands of Kerguelen, and Northern Nigeria.
Context
Pangea is a work between cinema and visual arts, initiated as a guest at Villa Medici in Rome in 2017, then continued on the Archipelago of Kerguelen as part of the Atelier des Ailleurs and in Nigeria in June 2018. It is an evolutionary installation whose form is never identical from one exhibition to another. Pangea will also take the form of an animated feature film in 2021-2022, the second of Simon Rouby after Adama.
Extract
Themes
- Anthropocene (current geological era, marked by the impact of human activities on the terrestrial ecosystem)
- geology, climate
Contents
- video loop
- sculptures of landscape fragments scanned and reprinted in 3D color
Techniques
- photogrammetry, 3D scan technique from photographs
- 3D printing
- clouds points
