PYGMALION
Video installation
(video screens, mahogany box 68x55x20cm, Raspberry motherboards)
3’45 video loop

Original music composed by No Compliment
2018

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Pygmalion is a video installation that takes the form of a diptych. It presents an act of reproduction which splits, at the opening of the scene, into two looks on the scene. One focusing on the emergence of the new individual, the other on the global act. These viewpoints merge into one at the end of the scene.
It is a sexual act of a hypothetical human species that would be based on a principle of scan and print performed by a gendered individual. The latter scans the body of an asexual congener with his hands, which is simultaneously reproduced layer by layer using his prehensile genitalia.
By the same token, this reproductive system induces a social organization based on cloning with a difference in status between sexual and asexual individuals.
The figure of the mythical sculptor Pygmalion is invoked in the title for the ultimate act of creation but it only resolves anatomically, in this hypothesis of human evolution, into a grotesque 3d impression.