Flowers and People - A Whole Year per Hour

Galerie des Galeries

The interactive digital artwork “Flowers and People - A Whole Year per Hour” by the art collective teamLab is presented at the Nouvelles Galeries Annecy.

Accessible to all in a dedicated room, this installation offers an original experience of creative immersion. Both ephemeral and infinite, Flowers and People - A Whole Year per Hour explores the relationship between the self, the natural world and new perceptions. Produced by digital technology that creates it in real time as it interacts with the public, it is perpetually transformed, never presenting the same images on screen twice.

Nouvelles Galeries - Entrée Sud, Pilier 18
25 avenue du Parmelan 74000 Annecy
Tous les jours, 10h - 20h

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Flowers and People

A Whole Year per Hour
teamLab, 2020
12 channels (6 channels x 2 rows)
Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

In the space of an hour, this interactive digital artwork presents the cycle of the four seasons: seasonal plants bloom, wither and transform perpetually. The flowers endlessly repeat the process of life and death. As visitors move through the installation, the flowers shed their petals and suddenly disperse. But when they stand still, they bloom and grow more abundantly.

This installation is not a pre-recorded image that is played back: it is created by software that constantly recreates the work in real time. Its interaction with people leads to its permanent transformation: previous visuals cannot be repeated and will not be repeated again. The image on the screen can never be seen again.

The cycle of the four seasons in an hour

In springtime, on the Kunisaki peninsula, the mountains are clothed in cherry blossom, while fields of flowering rapeseed stretch out at their feet. Faced with this natural landscape, the teamLab team wondered how many of these flowers had been planted by man and how many were indigenous. This is a place of great serenity and well-being, but this vast expanse of flowers is an ecosystem influenced by human intervention, and the boundary between nature and human action is blurred. It's pointless to pit nature against man. A healthy ecosystem must include humans. In the past, people understood that they couldn't understand nature in its entirety, and that it was impossible to control it. They lived more in harmony with the laws of nature, which created a pleasant natural environment.

"We believe that these valleys have retained minute traces of this pre-modern relationship with nature that once existed, and we're looking to explore a form of human intervention based on the principle that nature cannot be controlled."

teamLab

Founded in 2001 by Toshiyuki Inoko, teamLab is an international, interdisciplinary artists' collective bringing together diverse specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects, whose collaborative practice aims to bring together art, science, technology and the natural world. teamLab seeks to explore the relationship between the ground and the world, and to create new perceptions through art.