The Lyon-based architect-turned-artist was recently in Singapore to unveil his immersive installation, Remember Your Dreams, the first commissioned work for Porsche’s new global arts initiative, The Art of Dreams, which made its Asian pit-stop at Singapore Art Week, after its first showing in Paris last October
For a brand that is built on dreams—founder Ferry Porsche famously built his own sports car when he couldn’t find the one he was dreaming of—Porsche is all for creating dreams and making them come true.
This is what the German marque hopes to do with its new global art initiative, The Art of Dreams, which brings the works of like-minded artists to tour the creative centres of the world. Its first commissioned work, French artist Cyril Lancelin’s larger-than-life installation Remember Your Dreams, which was first unveiled at the Palais Galliera in October last year, and recently made its Asian pit-stop in Singapore at Marina Bay.
With the work, Lancelin hopes to help “everyone revive their dreams” even more so as we enter another year of the pandemic. “For me, a dream is the desire for something that could possibly happen. Even if it doesn’t come true, just the thought of it would somewhat make you happy,” he expounds.
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“I wanted to create an immersive structure, where you can go inside and enter another landscape, as if in a dream that’s so different from your day-to-day,” he said. This “experiential landscape” allows the audience to interact with the work and become part of it.
Taking inspiration from the curves of the Porsche cars—and the purple colour of a 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 from its archives—the architect-turned-artist based the inflatable work made from the polyester fabric on the arches found in traditional architecture, in this case double arches in a repeat formation. The notions of repetition and parametric generation are recurring themes in his works.
“It’s not a structure that you would see in a museum—with a please-do-not-touch label—you would be pleasantly surprised as it looks very different from the inside and out,” he shares. The kinetic movement, with the ever-changing light and shadow depending on the time of day, as well as the backdrop—in this case, the skyscrapers of Marina Bay—offer a different look from every angle.
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