IRYNA SHEVELOVA / Alchemy
Work from the immersive exhibition designed by students of the Beaux-Arts de Paris at the Espace Niemeyer dialogues with architecture to offer a sensory and poetic experience around the love and memory of the place.
Event information
Time: 2026-06-06 19:00 UTC – 2026-06-07 03:00 UTC
Place: Espace Niemeyer, 6 Avenue Mathurin Moreau (Porte B), 75019, Paris
Price: Free
Tags: Art contemporain
About this event
Alchemy, video installation, 2026Alchemy offers an immersive installation within the Espace Niemeyer, envisaged as a perceptual laboratory where the image emerges in the darkness like a fragile presence, in the making. Architecture becomes the support for a sensitive experience, where the image is not given immediately, but appears gradually. The installation explores love not as a represented subject, but as an invisible process of transformation. Through a large-scale video projection, it presents images from the photogram, a technique without a camera, based on direct contact between light, material and gesture. The image thus occurs as a reaction, an imprint being formed. The projection, produced using an ultra-short throw video projector, occupies the entire surface of a wall. Slowly mutating organic forms, between liquid and light, unfold without ever settling. Their reflection on the ground extends the image and creates a perceptual instability, blurring the boundaries between real and immaterial. A diffused red light transforms the space into an immersive environment, both laboratory and intimate space. The shapes oscillate between several readings, chemical reactions, neuronal flows, cosmic landscapes, playing on an ambiguity of scale, from the microscopic to the macroscopic. The spectator does not observe an image, but witnesses an apparition. He is immersed in slow time, where something is formed without ever stabilizing. The projection becomes a threshold between visible and invisible. Light does not show: it reveals. Visuals: The three visuals are photos of my process of creating my photograms in the photo lab.
Iryna Shevelova was born in kyiv, Ukraine. A painter, a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts and Architecture in kyiv, she is currently a student in the Fresco and Situation Art program at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris and the University of Paris 8.
A project co-produced as part of an educational partnership with the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with the participation of Espace Niemeyer.
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