With Capsule, Luxembourg Art Week takes over vacant spaces in the city center. Each activated space will remain visible from the street around the clock.
Location
7 Rue du Marché-aux-Herbes
1728 Ville-Haute Luxembourg
Traversed by rationalism, modernity sought to trivialize technologies to make them neutral and objective. However, in today’s society, connected and intelligent objects influencing our perceptions and communication modes daily, show us that technology has become “charged with mysticism.”
“The cyborg is a spiritual being, the machine is haunted, cyberspace mirrors the world,” and meanwhile, humanity works “to build space colonies that will take the luckiest away from a dying Earth,” philosopher Manuela de Barros reminds us.
The technological machine undeniably asserts itself as a “medium of revelation,” re-enchanting our world by nourishing our present and future imaginations. Even in the face of its obsessive, often polluting presence in every corner of the globe, a significant part of the scientific community still relies on the salvific powers of geoengineering. It is this ambiguous relational field, where magical belief and technology intertwine and shape each other, that Léa de Cacqueray explores through her practice of installation and sculpture.
By creating astonishing hybrids that blend ancient divinatory rituals, such as the oracle or hydromancy, with forms drawn from robotics or the medical sphere, the artist conceives works with a high-tech aesthetic, cryptic and indefinable, conducive to speculative fiction. Endowed with interactive capacities, her works incorporate textual and sound elements and mechanical movement, aiming to evoke indeterminate emotions that redraw our conception of the living and the inanimate. Flirting with the universe of science fiction, Léa’s works question our technological rituals and beliefs: between the power of alienation and liberation from reality, how do we experience these enchantments that carry our imaginations ever further?
Licia Demuro - 2023
More info: www.leadecacqueray.wixsite.com
