The French art duo consisting of Marion Pinaffo (born in 1987) and Raphaël Pluvinage (born in 1986) have been working together since 2015. They have spent nearly ten years observing, manipulating and experimenting with the technologies that surround us. Driven by curiosity and intuition, they explore interactions between the mathematical logic of automatons and human creative sensibility. Pinaffo & Pluvinage create simple objects, systems and processes to reveal complex and hidden realities. Both precise and poetic, their work is derived from continual experimentation, each project being a unique invention of material forms, with an acute sense of graphics.
The duo is presenting Fanions et Carillons, at the Église Notre-Dame de Lourdes. The work was originally commissioned by the Abbaye de Fontevraud in 2023, and displayed in the Chapelle Saint-Benoît. The automaton plays tribute to the abbey’s historic clock, coming to life every hour and half-hour. Rather than producing the sound of bells, a simple and rudimentary mechanism starts a set of silk pennants moving. Fourteen inert pennants awake in turn, creating ephemeral shapes that evolve and respond. Like silent bell chimes, the visual choreography generates a visual melody, lasting a few minutes and repeated at regular intervals. An ephemeral symphony of fabric!
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