Miguel Chevalier - Extra Natural 2023 | Kunsthalle Munich

Extra-Natural 2023, Miguel Chevalier
Generative and interactive virtual reality installation
Group show “Flowers Forever”, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
A film by Thomas Granovsky
Software Extra-Natural: Cyrille Henry, Antoine Villeret
Technical production: Voxels Productions
“Extra-Natural” is a lush virtual garden that plunges visitors into a re-invented nature between dream and reality. This garden is made up of varieties of imaginary flowers out of botanical classifications: wired and luminescent plants, light and fluid, of a symphony of vivid colors; herbaceous plants with long translucent leaves; exotic flowers with extraordinary corollas.
This work uses algorithms that create artificial life universes, with growth, proliferation and disappearance effects. The originality and the might of this creation are achievable thanks to a generator from which gigantic flowers of different sizes, colours and shapes are produced. The garden constantly renews and transforms itself.
This work is also interactive through infrared sensors. As viewers interact with the artwork, the plants incline to the left or right. The plants undulate with a wind that we can't feel, creating a scene which alternates between baroque strapwork and stylized organic ballet.
These artificial paradises seek to create a new relationship with nature, to recreate the conditions of a symbiosis between human and nature.
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