CHIROTOPE
Robotic sculpture, 2020.
Robotic hands, electronics, marble.
Production : city of Lille & ZERO1 festival.
Exhibitions : CDA Enghien-les-bains, POUSH Paris, Spazio In Situ Rome, Espace le Carré Lille, Galerie Odile Ouizeman Paris, Agence Captures Royan.
(“Chiros” = hands,” topos” = place)
"Chirotope is an animated sculpture directly inspired by the
hand games of the ancient and baroque statues that dot the city
of Rome. By observing the worked bodies, the drapery of the
moving togas or the expressions of the faces, Fabien Zocco
identifies in the sculptors an intention common to the roboticists:
to mimic the human, to reproduce it in the most faithful way
possible, to get closer to it. always more. The work thus
materializes the analogy between sculpture and robotics. The
hands, both straight, communicate with each other. They
dialogue together to the rhythm of a conversation between HAL
9000 (a supercomputer with artificial intelligence) and Dr. Dave
Bowman, two legendary characters from the 2001 film, A Space
Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick."
Indira Béraud, curator.
