3D animated film and musical performance, immersive projection.
Video, Installation, Performance, Music Coeurs, Valentin Ranger, 2026 Coeurs is a 3D animated film accompanied by a musical performance by Inès Chérifi. In it, a human society discovers a hybrid species and gives rise to a new ideal of mutation and balance. Two immense hearts form the central figures of the film. Both witnesses and active forces, they observe the birth of this world and accompany the connections between the organisms that inhabit it. They symbolize the first caress, the original tenderness that gives rise to the desire for connection. They may be the memory of childhood, of the first act of maternal tenderness, but also the embodiment of a search in which softness is a constant and an inherent balance in every relationship. The film’s other characters are hybrid avatars inspired by forms of microscopic life. Human, bacterial, viral, and fungal bodies mingle in a biomorphic and ornamental aesthetic. They have developed forms of ornamentation, symbols of their biological heritage. Adornments, decorations, and ornamental architectures thus become ways of making visible this secret of the living world. The film poetically tells the story of the dialogue between the body’s surface and its internal systems. On the surface of the skin, the organisms of the microbiome converse with the inside of the body, its fluids, and its balances. The encounters, circulations, and dances between the film’s characters thus become a way of visually translating the movements of the microbiome and the biological exchanges that link organisms to one another. This film is a sensitive reflection on how our relationships influence our place within the world, and questions the role of care given to others as a new aesthetic of the beauty of the future: a shared beauty, experienced together. The musical performance is a deconstruction of a love song, a dialogue between electric violin, voice, and machines. It invites the audience to inhabit this sonic environment, where love appears as a shared vibration circulating between bodies, surfaces, and the invisible architectures of sound. The sound material is shaped as a set of flows: acoustic, digital, almost chemical flows, comparable to the electrical and biological circulations that pass through a living organism. The voices, violin, and electronic textures embody acoustic life forms that coexist, interact, and transform one another. The sounds unfold in evolving sonic layers, seeking a balance between different forces: acoustic and electronic, raw matter and transformed matter, fragility and intensity. Vibrations circulate continuously through the space, creating a shared sound environment where interactions between frequencies and bodies produce a collective experience. Curated by Valentin Ducros Romignon With the support of L'Oréal Photo partially retouched using AI
Source: paris.fr — photo: Florence Joubert for L’Oréal / Photo partially retouched using AI