Abstraction

Abstraction is a philosophical, artistic, computer and psychological concept. In psychology, it is the ability to mentally construct conceptual objects, i.e. objects that do not exist in reality. It is one of the essential points of difference between homo sapiens and other animal species. In computer science, it is a representation in a high-level language, which brings together in an intelligible way a large number of low-level operations, we speak of an “abstraction layer”. In art, it is about representations that do not seek to represent reality. In philosophy, it is the production of a concept. My creative work often concerns abstraction, in these different meanings.

Poem in automatic writing about « Abstraction »

The small trace left on a surface, on a “skin”, is perhaps the most important thing there is. Portions of a building, which transform the bodies of humans who cross. Light is what gives existence. This installation was made from 5 May to 2 November 2014. Lateral travelling. Primitive motion pictures. Kaleidoscopes. My kaleidoscopes are my obsession, and that’s not a bad thing. Looking at our journey, floor by floor, is not so nostalgic; it is also to decipher it in order to better draw the continuation of the journey. Speaking words is like drawing your own life line. What is architecture, what is a place, how do you envisage ?

Flowers from the grave, video/organic installation, Garden Festival of Chaumont sur Loire

Video-vegetal installation.Into the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur Loire, the landscape architect Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville has created a vegetable sculpture, in a basement, as a large liana levitating in the dark. I worked on (…)

8 May 2014

1 min

Dancer : Loïe Fuller

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’28s, silent, 2020).

Mise en abyme of the presence of human bodies as abstractions, through time, techniques and cultures.

23 February 2020

1 min

Lifeline

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2000).

Lateral travelling.

19 May 2000

1 min

My kaleidoscopes are my obsession, and that’s not a bad thing.

Kaleidoscopes.

28 August 2019

1 min

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

Revisit the principles of four-colour printing, with inks and ashes. Fifteen “numerical paintings”.Mechanical colour reproduction does not use the same primary colours as in painting. There are only three: Red, Green and Blue. On computer (…)

17 August 2018

2 min

Séance kaléidoscope Les sables d'Olonne (15 janvier 2015)

Café/Ciné # 10 (Les Sables d’Olonne - France)

January 16, 2015, showing of a film series program Kaleidoscopes, interspersed with texts I say during projection.Sessions organized by the association Small lantern, also organizer of the Festival Slice of life in Olonne sur Mer (France). (…)

15 January 2015

2 min

It turns

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2000).

Primitive motion pictures.

19 May 2000

1 min

Multiverse

29 April 2022

Richard Texier at work

A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’54s, 2014).

A mystery of the act of painting, unveiled with Richard Texier.

7 October 2014

2 min

Imagine Absence

16 October 2021

The line

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’06s, 2020).

Light is what gives existence.

5 June 2020

1 min

Moon in the water

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’45s, 2014).

Dialogue between a haiku of Ueda Chôshû and organic-generative kaleidoscopes images made with reality.

12 June 2014

1 min

Stairwell

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’59s, 2018).

Looking at our journey, floor by floor, is not so nostalgic; it is also to decipher it in order to better draw the continuation of the journey.

15 November 2018

1 min

Hold your right

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’57s, 2005).

Movement of the human gaze, gaze of the machines, movement of the world...

15 July 2005

1 min

The hill

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’20s, 2014).

The position of the body in architecture is an eternal question for me.

22 February 2014

1 min

Fractal

20 April 2022

Le fil

Series of 100 paintings by Benoît Labourdette (acrylic and mixed media on canvas) format of 100x100cm in format 12x12cm, 2016.Exhibition in the studio of the artist in the fourth quarter 2016.«Initially, I had a film project : work inside (…)

31 October 2016

2 min

Turned upside down

Collective film and installation coordinated by Benoît Labourdette (8’19s, 2019-2021).

Video installation based on a collective film made by the artists themselves to present their work. As part of Lil’Art 2019.With : Jolanta Anton, Brigitte Badier, Lorka Berger-Campagne, Michèle Coudert, Véronique De Lavau, Thierry Deléage, (…)

17 September 2021

1 min

Straight line towards the end

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (5’40s, 2000).

Speaking words is like drawing your own life line.

19 May 2000

1 min

L.I.N.E.

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’43s, 2014).

A voice emerges from the field of image and sound.

30 June 2014

1 min

Presence and time

Practical hypothesis of power over time.

We each have extremely varied experiences of time, depending on our general modality of presence in time, and our specific intentionalities at certain moments. What is presence? What is time? And how an intimate comprehension of their (…)

17 July 2022

5 min

Rung

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’36s, 2014).

Portions of a building, which transform the bodies of humans who cross.

29 June 2014

2 min

Human movement

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2000).

Primitive motion pictures.

19 May 2000

1 min

Rachid’s

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2014).

The small trace left on a surface, on a “skin”, is perhaps the most important thing there is.

22 February 2014

1 min

The call

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’50s, 2013).

What is architecture, what is a place, how do you envisage ?

1 December 2013

1 min

Justice

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’22s, 2018).

The mysteries and paradoxes of justice, like so many traces of electric movements forgotten in the past.

16 February 2018

2 min

Basis of digital cinema and digital video

To take full ownership of digital as a tool for audiovisual production, as a language for self-expression, it is necessary, in my point of view, to considered it in the concrete of its materiality, to no longer represent it as an abstraction, but (…)