Marie-Pier Vanchestein

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This installation features robotic benches that move together in space, following rules inspired by swarm algorithms. Through their movements, both programmed and unpredictable, the benches seek, through a common movement, to escape the gallery. The hum of their motors accompanies this attempt at emancipation, creating a collective murmur.

The artist explores how a group can exist and evolve in a given space. These exhibition benches, normally immobile and designed to invite viewers to sit, become active elements that interact, adjust, and constantly reorganize.

By playing with diversion and the principle of emergence, the exhibition questions our relationship with the structures that surround us. Can these benches truly break free from the framework that defines them? Through this poetic staging, the artist invites us to rethink the connections that unite a collective and the spaces it inhabits.

Marie-Pier Vanchestein is a student member and a recipient of the Hexagram-ELEKTRA project call 2024. She is currently pursuing a master degree in Media and Visual Arts at UQAM.

About the Hexagram-Elektra Call for Projects

The partnership between the Hexagram Network and ELEKTRA aims to encourage exchanges between practice-based and academic communities. The ELEKTRA Gallery creates a space conducive to aesthetic and discursive research through digital artistic production. Consequently, this program values experimental or critical research-creation projects and supports the development of emerging artist members of the Network.

Cover image : ⒸMarie-Pier Vanchestein

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