LOOP BARCELONA 2023

For this new edition of LOOP Barcelona, Galerie Eric Mouchet is delighted to present Babel (2023) a video by artist Louis-Cyprien Rials, who returns to France after a year spent in Iraq. The video is currently on show in the “FONDATION” exhibition in our Brussels venue (until December 16).

 

“Babel is a drone shot centered on the Ziggurat of Borsippa, which was long considered to be the remains of the Tower of Babel before a more likely location for the edifice was found. Our imaginations have been nourished by the story of Genesis, which popularized this construction as excessive as the pride of the people who built it.

It marked mankind’s inability to reach the heavens, despite its efforts to build a monument of unprecedented elevation. And the contemporary situation of Babylon, the cosmopolitan capital of an empire that then covered the entire Near East, was a good illustration of the diversity of languages that was the consequence of the failure of the attempt.

In the soundtrack, a composition by Romain Poirier and excerpts from Genesis are translated and read by two artificial intelligence programs (DeepL and ElevenLabs), redefining the permanent link between humanity’s attempts to rebuild – this time virtually – the Tower of Babel through artificial intelligence and transhumanism, and humanity’s constantly renewed errors.” (Louis-Cyprien Rials)

 

MORE INFORMATIONS:

 

Almanac Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 619-621
From November 21 to 23, 2023
loop-barcelona.com

 

// LOOP Fair online (November 21-30, 2023)
// Louis-Cyprien Rials
// Fondation (09/22-12/16/2023 | Brussels)