Wunderwelten (Wonderful Worlds) is a fantastic contemporary fable in the form of a video installation in triptych form.
Through a satirical picture, this project depicts a veritable dream world and a thrill ride. Its gritty narrative is set in Europapark, a huge amusement park where the most intense entertainment is offered. It depicts a world made up of complex technological mechanisms, artifices and machines designed for the intensive entertainment of mankind.
Inspired by the painting The Garden of Delights by Jérôme Bosch as well as the myth of Medusa and the power of petrification, this initially naturalistic installation progressively unfolds through a fantastic and lyrical register to reach a pictorial, visual and sound crescendo at the end of its trajectory. In the last part, the transformation of one of the park's visitors into a statue symbolises dehumanisation and questions the boundary between the natural and the artificial in a register close to science fiction.
The installation unfolds a monumental picture, in three screens in Ultra-High Definition and spatialized sound, weaving together different sketches mixing documentary and fiction, thus blurring the border between the two. Realism and fantasy play off each other in multiple variations, summoning different cinematographic and pictorial codes.
The project will be premiered at the 16th Lyon Biennial in 2022. It will then be exhibited at Ososphère, at the Biennial of Digital Art in Strasbourg in 2023.
