La mariée mise à nu par les pixels, mêmes

An extremely tight hood covers the entire face, leaving only space to breathe. Its inner lining is loose, with extra fabric that forms a multitude of random traces on the skin. Thirty minutes of immobility with the hood, followed by another thirty minutes without it, reveal temporarily scarred skin. As the revealed composition and its gradual disappearance are filmed, a custom code snippet analyzes the pixels of the image, assigning a letter to each pixel value. The thirty-minute video—long enough to watch the traces fade from the skin—is sufficient to generate a tabloid-sized book of 1,080,000 pages, pixel by pixel, frame by frame, second by second.

La mariée mise à nu par les pixels, même (The bride stripped naked by the pixels, even*) is a simple exploration of the possibilities of jumping from one playful medium to another.

The work has been presented as an installation, as well as live perfromance where visitors can use headphones to listen to my breathing while suspended in the mask, waiting for the lines to form.

* Reference to Marcel Duchamp's work La mariée mise à nue par les célibataires, 1912.