Caroline Delieutraz, Blue Meme

La transformación, Mapamundistas 2020, Pampelune Citadel, Spain, 2020

About the video:
These characters, blue-skinned humanoids, are, in this video, taken out of their original universes (comics, manga, movies, cartoons, video games). As figures of the strange, half-human, half-other (animal, alien, robot, etc.), they embody alterity in their respective fictions. Removed from their worlds and placed into the same fiction, they form a kind of community of hybrid creatures, absurd and orphaned, constantly transforming and self-perpetuating. Always and never the same, they resist these changes and proclaim, with a unified voice, that they are all originals, each claiming to be the one "true" blue man. I collected images of blue men with the help of a dedicated Facebook group. 
 

56", loop, color, sound, 2010.
 

About the artist :
Caroline Delieutraz explores the circulation of images and the way they reshape our imaginations and influence our consciousness. Refusing to pronounce on the future – utopian or dystopian – of the Web, she borrows from it the culture of collaboration and DIY. The artist collects visual materials that she manipulates and reworks to create displacements that encourage hybridization and relational meshing. In installations that often combine digital and handmade techniques, she gives materiality to fluid, elusive phenomena. The resulting constructions and deconstructions remind us of the profoundly fictional nature of images. Caroline Delieutraz’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, including Around Video (Lille), Art Brussels, Centquatre (Paris), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), Fondation Vasarely (Aix-en-Provence), Jeu de Paume (Paris), LocaleDue (Bologna), Prix Sciences Po pour l’art contemporain (Paris), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Maison Populaire (Montreuil), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris) and Citadelle de Pamplona (Spain).

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