Olympia Dairaine-Grimaux
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I am a twenty one years old media communicative developer. I'm studying communication at Concordia University, Montreal. I'm passionate about psychology and contemporary art. My projects evoke human's feelings and past and present through a creative design. I present, on this sit web, four projects I imagined and constructed through the year 2021-2022. I would like to sensitive and communicate through a new technologic media which is, nowadays, the multimedia. My work, in collaboration is a way to assembly several perceptions and states of mind.
AN ELSEWHERE HERE:
A SITE-SPECIFIC PROJECT
THE Artistic Dépanneur
Our elsewhere here: a site-specific project will recontextualize the banal nature of the dépanneur into a virtual experience, centralizing on all five of our senses, eyesight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. Our virtual experience will encapsulate an art exhibit within the walls of the depanneur. Exploring and experiencing the five rooms/five senses within an inconspicuous looking virtual depanneur. Giving space to inquire how our senses are experienced in a virtual space. While facilitating discussion and consideration around what the depanneur means culturally and artistically as well as our dependence on a space 24h that caters to the myriad of immediate necessities and desires. Ultimately questioning How does the dépanneur operate in the duality of banal necessity within the framework of society as well as a space with an artistic exploration?
Synopsis:
Our dépanneur is a virtual world, similar to a virtual exhibition where we can enter through five rooms, representation of the five senses. The eyesight is represented as five photographs taken by us with two different methods of photography: silver process and digital. It will permit a visual representation of what is a dépanneur through the medium of the photography. To interpret the hearing sense we decided to make an interview composed of what people think about the usefulness and the place of dépanneur in daily life. This survey is supported with tone sound found into a dépanneur in order to recreate the hearing dimension of our special place. The taste is illustrated with Andy Wharol’s famous painting the Campbell’s soup cans. Indeed, the artist permit a contemporary art approach by using, through a visual and intellectual method, common and daily objects. The touch is represented with a homemade sculpture of Coke cans. The artwork is taken in picture in order to be input in our virtual dépanneur. The idea of making sculpture is born of our pop art inspiration such as visual representation of common and cultural object. Finally, the smell was created through a short video which includes iconic movies and TV shows where characters eat casual food, food that we can find in a dépanneur. It could be beers, cans of Coke, frozen pizza, chips or either candies.
The Link of our Dépanneur Exhibition
A project by Zaya Levesque, Olympia Dairaine-Grimaux and Léa Tual