View of the exhibition Doublage, 2021

gallery AL / MA, Montpellier, France

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Le monde projeté, 2021

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(Bayou) - yellow, 2018, 73 x 15 x 255 cm, (Saba) - blue triangle, 2021, 53 x 58 x 15, high : 230 cm ; 185 cm, (Stella) - beige octagon, 2021, (33 cm x 8) x 15 x 150 cm, neon, plexiglass, aluminum, steel

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Today, our world is saturated with signs. Faced with an unfamiliar language, we suddenly become strangers again.

 

Mona Young-eun Kim proposes a speculative vision of how the urban landscape might evolve through language and translation.

 

Doublage imagines a utopia where language barriers disappear. The physical landscape becomes a neutral surface, like a blank wall, onto which signs and information tailored to each user are projected.

 

The project consists of two components:

 

Le Monde projeté (Projected World)

A series of sculptures made from neon signs salvaged from urban environement with their original text and symbols erased.

 

Doublage

An augmented reality (AR) interface that activates the virtual layer through a mobile application.

 

Standing in front of the installation, the viewer first encounters a landscape stripped of all visual information.

 

Through the augmented reality experience, new signs and information gradually appear in the language chosen by each user, progressively reactivating the space.