Memory Lane:

“Memory Lane was inspired from several locations in the districts of Ribadesella and Llanes, Asturias (Spain) which shape Félix Luque Sánchez and Iñigo Bilbao Lopategui’s childhood and youth memories. Better yet, these natural environments – strands, rocky areas, woodland – do not simply inspire this project: they literally feed it. Turned into data via 3D scanning and modelling, these locations served as mould to the sculpted pieces the final installation consists of”.

“The result is an extremely detailed reproduction of these places, but at the same time a ghostly, distant and incomplete representation, that gradually becomes a fiction. Together with Damien Gernay, the three artists elaborate a particular imitation of nature, which is captured with the most accurate precision allowed by current technology, and at the same time transform it into something consciously artificial.”

“By converting nature into data, the artists create a sculptural representation with its own physicality. Using 3D modelling software, CNC milling machines, mechatronics and electronic custom systems, they are able to create a completely different reality.

The result is a parallel existence, with its own behaviors and language, which no longer belong to the humans who imagined them, but to the machines that shaped them.”

Download “Realms of memory” by curator Paul Waelder about Memory Lane  






Credits:

Memory Lane by Félix Luque in collaboration with Iñigo Bilbao, Damien Gernay and Vincent Evrard

A coproduction of “Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de España", “secteur arts numériques, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles”, "Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru" and “Arcadi”.