Exhibitions "Lonetopo"
For this exhibition at the Maison du Berger, artist Darla Murphy confronts the synthetic with the wild, the digital with the feeling, the artificial intelligence with the human experience, mixing them to the point of no longer distinguishing them. She works the material—like the wool produced locally in the valley—with digital techniques and juxtaposes human vulnerability, organic, with technological nothingness. This work follows a creative residency at the Maison du Berger where the artist became aware of the landscapes and peculiarities of the valley. She also conducted a workshop with local residents around her modified knitting machine. This tool that she sometimes uses in her artistic work allows to translate digital images into knitting patterns, like pixels, calling on the close link between the industrialization of textile production and digital memory. The Maison du Berger and the partnership with a local spinning mill, Les Laines du Valgaudemar, provided him with the perfect conditions to address the specific issues of this material.