16th century italian cinema

CENTRE D’ART DE LA CATHÉDRALE D’ÉVRY, 2000-2001
DANS LE CADRE DE L’ÉPIPHANIE

There is a curved space in the Évry Cathedral behind the choir, between the exterior and the interior wall, (4m wide by 30m long) with twenty high and narrow windows looking out onto the esplanade. I covered the windows leaving only a a small hole in the middle of four of the windows. This transformed the whole space into a gigantic walk in Camera Obscura. The exterior was projected onto the interior walls. To begin with you see and hear nothing and then images appear slowly upside down and with them a sound track.

Mario Botha’s cathedral being without windows, impenetrable in appearance from the outside, I wanted to project what was generally perceived as being ‘ugly’, i.e. the immediate surroundings of the cathedral, onto the real walls of the cathedral, like a luminous graffiti, a site specific cinema projection in real time, thereby creating a new link between this cathedral and the surrounding ‘new town’ in full evolution and construction.