Les Particules mécaniques - Claire Trotignon

Claire Trotignon’s practice questions the future of our society. Through collage and the rearrangement of dozens of fragments collected from 18^th century engravings, she recomposes refined landscapes, places where void and figures equally matter. In Les particules mécaniques, she uses the shape of the old world map as imagined by the encyclopaedists. But instead of giving a coherent representation of the world, she reproduces landscapes where nature and culture collide. By playing on the codes of representation, she also suggests that human knowledge is entering a period of doubt and crisis, at a time when its overabundance through social medias is radically transforming the notion of image and information.