Julien Maire - Man at Work (“Relief“ exhibition)

Stereolithographic projections & Expansion/Contraction sculptures Media Archaeology is a new science. It’s not studying the history of cinematograph and gramophone, but how our perception of the world is transformed through the camera lens and the speaker. The audiovisual is like a soundtrack, a visual tracking shot moving in parallel to us; pictures and sound are visual fictions that moved away from reality, but disrupt and influence our relation to reality. In French, “3D cinema“ was also called “relief cinema“ (relief as in “relief map“ or “bas-relief“). The term went out of style when we were forced to admit that “relief cinema“ didn’t exist. “Relief“ evokes materiality, while “3D“ is commonly understood as a mathematical and computational concept. Julien’s stereolithographic projector is indeed a conceptual game around 3d cinema, this old myth recently arrived in theaters and t