Memory Lane
Installation
2015
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
Memory Lane’s mechatronic installation:
A sculpture in the form of a rock levitates and moves horizontally. This movement is generated by a custom machine which moves in syncrony. The rock is a perfect 3d scanned copy of a real rock situated in a beach in Asturias. Two 65” plasma displays are fixed behind the sculpture. They play a LIDAR point cloud 3D animation film of different landscapes of Asturias.
Credits
Memory Lane by Félix Luque in collaboration with Iñigo Bilbao, Damien Gernay and Vincent Evrard
Technic:
Mechatronic Sculpture
2 Bosh Rexroth Linear modules MKR 20-80. Aluminum profiles. Custom Mechanical and electronic parts. 2 Granite Devices Vsd-e-160. 4 Arduinos. Dual custom Levitation system. Epoxy foam 5 axis milled sculpture (rock).
Media:
• 2K = 3840 x 1080
Support:
• 2 Panasonic plasma displays 65” TH65PF.
Film:
Hardware:
• FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D X330
Software:
• Scene 3D laser scanner software
• Autodesk 3ds Max
• Thinkbox Krakatoa MX
A coproduction of “Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de España", “secteur arts numériques, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles”, "Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru" and “Arcadi”.