
Arles Museum of Antiquity 2012
ANIMATED SCULPTURE
The statue awakens, she watches us, she speaks
At the intersection of sculpture and videography, of a captivating realism, Dominik Barbier’s animated sculptures bring to life the eternal myth of the living statue. They evoke wonder and profound emotion, and they explore the millenial question on the existence of another world, and a dialogue with the ancients about the illusion of life and the living’s legacy, to the origins of the art of the portrait and of the antique sculpture. Attuned to the voices of the dead, within the dramatic art of mythology and of history.
The technology of statue mapping Fearless Life Illusion © is the only of its kind in the world with its finesse and quality of illusion.
Mapping onto the « Venus of Arles » (Louvre)
The Arles Museum of Antiquity entirely transformed into VIRGIL’S INFERNO.

Arles Museum of Antiquity, 2013

Palais des Beaux-Arts of Lille, 2023