Carnations

Philippe Hamelin's Carnations (lives and works in Montreal) regroups a series of synthesis animations crafted since 2012 by which the artist questions the ambiguity between reality, the living and the digital realm. The textured reshaping of the human body, sometimes brutally replaced by geometrical shapes or by random video footage, create a universe of disturbing strangeness. The emotional quality that emanates from these images can be as intimate as impersonal. 

Philippe Hamelin's animations are like so many threshold spaces where the image and the creatrive process we witness are constantly questioning their status, and where identification - both physical and psychological - is unraveled and reformed.