the polymorph rock
Photographic series, print and digital formats
video mini-DV and animation of still images, 11’52”mn, 2008-2010
Commissioned by the city of Cenon as artistic interpretations of the construction site ‘le Rocher de Palmer’, by Bernard Tschumi
Through the use of photography and video, Anne Laure Boyer observes the processes of change in chosen locations. Throughout the building site, the waste ground and other areas, she is interested in exploring the physical effects of time on space. Using representational effects in video montage format, such as time-lapse, compression, stretching or ellipses in the space between appearance and disappearance, she worked to make visible, that which is not perceived in ordinary time.
To realize/make the artistic interpretation of the building works at Rocher de Palmer, she worked with Guillaume Laidain, visual artist who works on the reinterpretation of everyday sounds. In this way the acoustic work complemented the visual work of Anne Laure. For a period of 2 years they recorded this evolution and concurrent construction in images and sound.
Faced with an architecture impossible to define in a single glance, they became immerged in the genesis of the works project, in order to understand the multi-faceted nature of the Rocher. They accomplished in the film a method to retranscribe the singular atmposhere of a location in the process of change.
