Rencontres arts et sciences

Espace CHUV

2020

The West Wind is an art installation including video, sound and two dimensional media, intended to engage with the natural element of the Wind, as well as its cultural, spiritual and mythical. Inspired by Longfellow’s poem ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ the artwork suggests an alternative world where a dream catcher (a symbol of purity, earth, air, and the the circle of life) swirls in the wind, captures images from our Natural environment, and transforms them into new realities and models of representations.

Leaves, brunches, plants, water, and snow enter and exit the pictorial plain. They glide in and out our vision creating a recurrence of motifs in a world with endless possibilities. They suggest a world where the past meets the present and the futuristic, and where random encounters encourage other ways of looking and seeing.

Sound by: Paco Chambi, musician and a professor at the Atelier d’ethnomusicology, Geneva

Curated by: Caroline de Watteville, art historian, head of cultural activities, CHUV