Machine for Living is a project elaborated in the context of a nine-month residency at Château Ephémère (Carrière-sous-Poissy, France). The video series investigates the architecture of the new towns (villes nouvelles) and brutalist residential buildings in the surroundings of Paris. Cities such as Noisy-le-Grand, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Créteil, Grigny, Cergy-Pontoise, Nanterre and Ivry-sur-Seine were at the center of this research. Created using photographs, 3D animation and video synthesizer, Machine for living combines documentation and abstraction and straddles the line between utopia and dystopia.
Machine for Living, 2018/Sabrina Ratté (CA), Credit: Sabrina Ratté
Project Credits:
- Courtesy Galerie Charlot Paris-Tel Aviv
Biography:
Sabrina Ratté (CA) is a Canadian artist whose practice includes video, animation, installations, sculptures, audio-visual performances, prints and virtual reality. Mixing analog technologies, photography and 3D animation techniques, her work focuses on the creation of architectures, abstract compositions and surreal landscapes, straddling the fine line between the virtual and the physical realm.
In 2019 she was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award (CAN).
Previous exhibitions: Laforet Museum (Japan), Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, Thoma Foundation (Santa Fe), Dolby (San Francisco), Young Project Gallery (Los Angeles), Whitney Museum of Art (New York), Galerie Charlot (Paris), Chronus Art Center, (Shanghai), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), HEK (Basel), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les Bains (France).
