Artist Talk: In Conversation with Boris Labbé
Schedule
Sunday, January 26, 2025
This event is free!
Artist Boris Labbé has created a rich ensemble of works characterized by hybridization, combining digital moving image techniques with those specific to animated film. This approach, somewhere between traditional and innovative, forms an original and vibrant language which he has shared through various gallery and virtual reality installations, as well as short films. In this talk, Labbé will discuss his work as it pertains to various artistic fields, detailing recurrent themes and specific areas of exploration. He will present several of his short films and discuss his latest work, Ito Meikyū, which won the Venice Immersive Grand Prize in 2024, and the upcoming VR experience, Précieuses Chimères, a project at the intersection of art, AI, and biodiversity.
Experience Ito Meikyū at the VR experience in L’Alliance New York’s Library throughout the festival!
Venue
Boris Labbé
Trained at the École supérieure d’art de Tarbes and then at the École de cinéma d’animation d’Angoulême, the work of Boris Labbé quickly toured the world, whether in contemporary art exhibitions, at international film festivals, or during audiovisual concerts. His latest short film, The Fall, was selected for the Special Screening at the Critics’ Week of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. In 2020, he collaborated with the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj and designed the video scenography of the show Swan Lake.
Labbé’s films and video installations have earned him some fifty awards and distinctions around the world, including the Golden Nica Animation at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, the Grand Prix at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo, and—most recently—the Grand Prix at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, for his 2024 project Ito Meikyū.
Ito Meikyū, produced by Sacrebleu Productions, is Labbé’s first virtual reality project. His other recent piece, Glass House, is a video scenography in collaboration with composer Lucas Fagin and produced by the Ensemble Cairn.
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