Digital Water Lilies | Miguel Chevalier

AN ODE TO NATURE, ANNOUNCING AND CELEBRATING THE ARRIVAL OF SPRING.
 
Jing An Kerry Centre, Shanghai, China
Software: Claude Micheli
Technical production: Voxels Productions 

From 14th of February to 19th of March 2017
Courtesy Puerta Roja Gallery, Hong Kong

Art Installations & hours
Digital Water Lilies @ South Piazza - 19:00 - 22:00 Everyday

Digital Water Lilies is a new site-specific virtual interactive garden, a lush parterre of flowers and different varieties of luminescent plants. The garden brings to blossom treasured flowers rich with symbolism and good auspices during the Spring in China. African lilies, orchids, camellias peach blossoms, all come to life in different sizes, colours and shapes. They appear randomly, come to full blossom and fade away only to be reborn again. The garden renews itself time after time, constantly changing and flourishing into its summer glory creating an endless enchantment for the eyes. As visitors walk around the 600 m2 flower carpet, the garden senses them and shifts around them with flowers opening up paths of discovery. Visitors are free to play spontaneously and, through the physicality of their body, open up and explore all the possibilities of the artwork. They are placed at the centre of a reinvented nature, an intriguing and poetic botanical universe. As a new form of “digital Impressionism”, the title and the cosmic sensibility of the work play homage to Monet and his research on light, seasons and nature.