Mathilde Renault
She/her
Friday 12 May
Audiovisual Art Assembly (AAA), Oedipus Brewing.
Mathilde Renault is a multimedia artist who interweaves various branches of research in her practice and speculates about sensory experiences deriving from scientific and technological processes. In her work, Mathilde largely focuses on natural phenomena, motivated by her interest in ephemeral, invisible forces affecting human experiences of any kind of territory. Her installations blur fictional and nonfictional narratives in poetic and intimate scenarios pointing to near-future realities. Mathilde’s work has been shown at Eye Filmmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Het Hem, the Dutch Design Week, and 2021 during IDFA 2022.
During the Audiovisual Art Assembly, Mathilde will focus more on her latest work “The Butterfly Effect”. The Butterfly Effect navigates within the new geopolitical realities we live in and speculates upon a sensory experience of a territory only known through digital imageries. It suggests a future in which Humanity will be able to experience any kind of territory regardless of the spectrum of perception, time, and geography, by enabling bystanders to physically engage with remote colonies. The work combines planetary science, aerospace engineering, fragrance technology, and digital programming to map a former shooting star’s journey to Earth. Utilising various processes of data translation, the 4.5 billion years old meteorite will reveal its hidden genetics through light, sound, smell, and video in a multi-sensory installation. Mathilde will dive deeper into the making processes behind and the realisation of the work.
