The story of “The Talking Cloud” began in 2011, when Yo-Yo Gonthier invited two hundred people, mainly teenagers, to participate in the construction of an eight-meter-long embroidered aerostat.
On Saturday at 5 p.m. it will take place “The cloud that spoke”, large-scale participatory installation by the French visual artist and photographer Yo-Yo Gonthier who will tour La Boca accompanied by “I am the son of the river”, exhibition that will open that same day at Proa21 (av. Pedro de Mendoza 2073) exhibiting different journeys of the artist’s cloud in different parts of the world.
This opening occurs within the framework of the cultural programming proposed by the Institut français d’Argentine – French Embassy in Argentina and can be visited starting Saturday throughout December, from Thursday to Sunday from 12 to 7 p.m.
An immense cloud will leave from Proa 21 that has been made together with local artists Javier Ferrante, Juan Carlos Urrutia, Sebastián Baez, Pedro Montes de Oca, Yhomara Muñoz and Paula La Fea. The cloud will take a tour of La Boca ending with a navigation along the Riachuelo.
“The cloud that spoke” It becomes a poetic and visual gesture. A participatory installation through which Gonthier proposes a reflection on the relationship of contemporary societies with their own memory and the role of the artist in today’s society, with the aim of giving a poetic response prepared collectively. The Cloud collects the thoughts of the participants in the activation and appears as an instrument of collective emancipation; a blank page on which ideas that otherwise would never have taken shape are inscribed.
Each time this collective performance is carried out, the experience is recorded in photographic and film essays taken by the artist with the help of other colleagues who temporarily join his project in different cities around the world.
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The story of “The Talking Cloud” began in 2011, when Yo-Yo Gonthier invited two hundred people, mainly teenagers, to participate in the construction of an eight-meter-long embroidered aerostat. An intriguing artifact that moved with the wind, capturing the dreams and thoughts of those it crossed and taking them to other horizons.
The cloud is a unique and singular object that creates a rupture in the space-time of everyday life, in which the individual is subject to both the laws of gravity and those of the market. The cloud expands the field of possibilities and allows dreams to penetrate reality: each of its representations is an opportunity to create links and weave encounters between inhabitants and artists. This installation of the wonderful in people’s lives is characteristic of the cloud, which weaves its own web throughout its pilgrimages.
After this first flight carried out in Saint-Denis, near Paris, as part of a residency, the Cloud was activated in various parts of the world with local artists and scientists: it traveled to the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean in 2013 during the performance Vol de Nuit / Night Flight, in 2015 in Abidjan with L’empreinte / The Footprint and in 2016, in Niamey, on the banks of the Niger River, for La traversée / The crossing. Thus, the cloud experience is transmitted, uniting people across borders.
Source: Ambito
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