CERJ LALONDE

A   spatial atmosphere, a puzzling silence, an unfathomable blackness, an invasion of eyes, an uncommon and unexpected area, an exploration of the paradigm of vision,  a journey from sight to insight,  a shift from viewing to being viewed,  an invading depth, a profound perspective, a personal infinity or sheer infinity exemplified, a body in motion laying an eye on other eyes, a work keeping an eye on you, a vision expressed through everybody’s eyes, all this is part and parcel of what this installation is about. At first sight it looks like eyes gazing, you take a closer look and see a “room with a view”, eyes meeting eyes, eyes everywhere. We can deduct that the same eye is everywhere. We cannot distinguish if it is a man’s or a woman's eye. Its age is uncertain. We face a kind of a-temporal and anonymous eye, looking at eyes. Therefore we are lead to reflect on the function of sight and the notion of vision. In order to decipher the intent concealed by these eyes, we are invited to oppose the large variety of ways of looking: to gaze, to glance, to stare, to observe, to view, to scrutinize, to watch, to examine, to perceive, to foresee... However, some eyes are looking without any apparent emotion, as if neutral. They simply look like eyes looking with a floating attention.  Why is that? We all know that eyes are le most revealing screen of our emotions! That may be why, this purposely empty looking eye, duplicated everywhere, gives room for numerous interpretations evermore so since it enables a viewer to project any emotion into these eyes.   -   Cerj Lalonde               

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ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Cerj Lalonde moves smoothly from the canvas to the camera, from computers to installations, producing and showcasing an extraordinarily rich and complex body of work created during the last 20 years. His purpose is to pursue a direct, and, in each case, a different communication with the spectator.

Amalia Caputo

"An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense 'intuitive linear' view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the twenty first century—it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate). The 'returns,' such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially. There's even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth. Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity—technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light." 

Ray Kurzweil.

In THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR - WHEN HUMAN TRANSCEND BIOLOGY (2005)

Je te masserais en douceur et en profondeur, faisant fondre nos tensions
dans un magma de souffle nouveau...
Comme une nouvelle naissance rejouée en rituel, intégré dans la culture - et dans la nature bien sûr de nos corps engagés dans ce débat de retrouvaille,
de reconstitution de l'unicité primordiale d'avant la séparation des corps (du corps de la mère), et après l'éternité de la pré-conception dans le non-être des probabilités virtuellement infinies et fractales.

C. L.
 

  - WE BELIEVE NO MORE... / ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH  /  DEC - 2006

FRACTAL UTOPIA

  - MOUSSEM - MOROCCO  /  DEC - 2006

  - GALLERY IMA  /  SEATTLE  /  MAY -J UNE 2006

  - ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH  /  DEC - 2005

  - ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH  /  DEC - 2003

  - ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH  -  //eye_luv-you:))  /  DEC - 2002: 

  - THE NO SHOW  / 

  - PERSPECTIVE 2001  /

  - 11 - 9 - 11  /  2002

 - CAN I BE SOMEONE...  /  2000

  - SCATTERED ELEMENTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD  /  1998

  - SEEING / OR CRITIC OF THE JUDGMENT  /  1986

  - GALLERIA  /  1984

  - UBIQUITY  /  1985

  - JEU DE SOCIÉTÉ  /  SEPT - 1983

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