Fisheye 80 (2023) Digital Arts by Patrick Allindré

Nietzsche says that You must still carry chaos within you, to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

My work begins with chaos. I choose magazines to pass them through a document shredder, reducing them into a multitude of 4mm wide strips.

Like a gold prospector, I then patiently sift through these kilometers of paper waste, looking for of nuggets, in search of tiny concentrates of plastic beauty, which I take and hoard.

After a computer journey through various image processing software, I then give to these few survivors of 1 at 2 square centimeters another life through large format printing, 1.4 to 1.60 m high by 25 to 30 cm wide.

Past from waste to icons, they are the ELECTED.

These are a sort of vanities, of Memento Mori.

Because the vocation of all these publications printed throughout the world is to disappear. They occupy a place in the light for a few moments before being replaced, swallowed up by the flow of production. They are the symbol of the impermanence of the world, of its fragility. Moreover, even before their disappearance, these Chosen Ones were not remarkable. They were invisible, buried in the mass, anonymous. My work relates to the incessant and universal struggle against the ephemeral, against the precarious, against the obscurity of anonymity. I show the beauty and preciousness that exists in the interstices of the contemporary emergency.

BIO

I passed through the Villa Arson in Nice, the School of Graphic Research (E.R.G) in Brussels.

I studied art history.

I was creative manager in a cultural center.

All my previous creative work, from the early 90s to 2010, disappeared in a fire. All that remains is a few low quality images.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists