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Florent Albinet: Gabie
Realised for the exhibition HABITER in Chamarande, France, the installation by Florent Albinet aims to offer a new perspective on the aquatic environment.
The Gabie Project stems from a desire to explore and inhabit new landscapes.
Our environment seem to have already been entirely explored or visited. Technology now allows us to see nearly all of the Earth’s surface, giving us seemingly omniscient vision.
That is, unless we make our minds available and open to the discovery of new territories. At the border between the oneiric and the real, each of us possesses individual spaces to discover, our own terra incognita, but only on the condition that we transcend preconceived notions.
There are as many perceptions of a landscape as there are individuals in the world. The notion of the landscape cannot be dissociated from its subjective dimension. Without the observer, there is no vision; without vision, there is no landscape. Each of us may thus perceive an environment according to our own experiences. To discover new territories requires the cultivation of one’s experience; in order to develop one’s creativity one must reorient perception of the world.
By studying movement, wave formation, material structure, and hydrostatics, Albinet defined the parameters of the project. It would in no way resemble the habitual constructions which permit us to navigate the sea (rafts, sailboats…). Contemplation of the marine environment is its objective.
The construction of the object is in itself an integral part of the project. The use of techniques and materials which are manageable at a personal level allow for all of the inputs of this experiment to be controlled, its parameters varied.
