Video: Miguel Chevalier's Magic Carpets 2014 on the floor of the former Sacre Coeur Catholic Church in Casablanca
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The project Magic Carpets 2014 by contemporary French artist Miguel Chevalier is an interactive light screen installed on the floor of the former Catholic Church of Sacre Coeur in Casablanca, Morocco.
The church was built in 1930, but after Morocco gained independence, it stopped carrying out religious services and turned into a cultural center with open access for tourists.
The huge display that spans the entire central nave of the church shows a series of alternating abstract patterns, some of which look like animated pictures from a biology and botany textbook, while others look like a magnified digital photograph or frame from an old video game with antediluvian 8-bit graphics. The vibrating black and white image gradually transforms, giving way to bright, multi-colored spirals and curls, rotating in time with the pleasant music of the composer Michel Redolfi (Michel Redolfi).
Chevalier combines images inspired by the natural structure of living organisms with elements of computer graphics in the spirit of the first visualizers for computer media players. Visitors to the cultural center can freely move right on the surface of the screen, looking at colorful pixels or trying to catch up with a rapidly flowing puddle of color. The multi-colored pattern of the luminous screen echoes the colored glass of stained-glass windows in the windows of the church and the illumination of slender columns. All this is emphasized by the subdued light and austere architecture of the neo-Gothic building.
The installation was carried out with the technical support of the French Institute of Casablanca and the Voxel animation and visual effects studio.
A similar installation was staged by the American artist Anne Patterson at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco by hanging over a thousand multicolored satin ribbons from the ceiling.
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