WITHIN OUR TERRITORIES

Photographic light installation and sound, 13 min 16 s.

Is it possible to have an experience in which our own body seems to be located in an irrational space-time ? Altered states of consciousness, and out-of-body experiences in particular, are often stigmatized and interpreted as psychiatric disorders by medical institutions. Yet, according to certain neurologists and neuroscientists, one in ten people report having had such an experience, sometimes repeatedly throughout their lives.

During an astral projection, a person may have the impression of leaving their physical body and traveling to other dimensions or intangible places. Individuals reporting such experiences describe a profound sense of interconnection with natural worlds, non-material realities or deceased beings.

Inspired both by my research and personal experience, Within Our Territories seeks to reveal the immaterial aspects of the unfathomable worlds these states allow us to approach. Using an entirely analogue process, I construct imaginary landscapes in which photographs of deceased beings and fragments of vegetation are superimposed in water. Light passing through water and glass generates spectral forms. Like holograms, these images appear in transparency through the diffraction of light. Through this approach, I aim to intuitively and poetically convey my own sensations of more subtle planes of reality.

The ambient matter caresses my skin like morning mist.

Textures, sounds

silences, vibrate simultaneously.

Evanescent beings appear on my path.

As I move between these worlds, orifices filled with diamonds of light open up to me.

I harbor these precious moments

each experience like a jewel to be buried

in a continuum of consciousness.