by pierre ajavon
Video art
h: 1 w: 1 d: 1 (cms).
By trying to fix a hole to stop our mind from wandering on the other side…
""Fixing a hole" uses lunar footage and abstract colors coupled with experimental electronic music and NASA lunar recordings.
About the Artist
pierre ajavon
Website: pierreajavon.com
Instagram: pierre.ajavon/
Facebook: pierreajavonvideos/
Statement
I’m a visual artist, a songwriter, a musician and a sociologist. I specialize in researching sound visualizing via Pop imagery. Mixing electro, psych-pop and field recording for my musical research led me to make many experimental shorts which I shot, edited and designed the music production for (music & sound design).
Intending to “film sound” and transform it into pictures, my approach strive to hinge my musical thought on postmodern visual aesthetics which draw its references both on psychoanalysis (dream and subconscious) and the symbolist, surrealist and pop-art artistic movements.
Music and pictures run on many rhythmic or aesthetical analogies and links in his works.
Music and pictures do communicate with each other.
Each animated shot received a specifc compositional labour (shape, colors, printing overlays, motion changes...)
His approach to moving pictures matched with a beat where visual emotions appeared and vanished in a kind of cinematic expressiveness devoid of real actors.
Since 2015, I expanded my research by using my video frames to create digital works on aluminium or/and plexiglas. Indeed, I redefined the dialogue between sound and moving pictures by developing a triangulation incorporating a still image.
Biography
Born in Paris on 1 May 1966 // lives & works in Paris - France
Pierre Ajavon is a visual artist, a composer, a musician and a sociologist.
Education :
Sound engineer (accredited training center Steinberg)
Composer & Musician (member of SACEM and SACD)
Master in Sociology : Thesis : The psychedelic movement and its influence on contemporary culture - Paris X-Nanterre
License // Ethnomusicology and Sociology - Paris X-Nanterre
Bi-Deug // Sociology - Psychology - Paris X-Nanterre
After majoring in social sciences in the area of the psychedelic culture, he undertook a long musical journey as composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist.
While undergoing training as sound engineer in 2013, Pierre Ajavon moved toward Video Art to broaden his own field of artistic expression.
Video soon turned out as a vital introspective and aesthetical tool for his artistic works.
Since 2015 he has diversifed his research and produced digital works on aluminium or plexiglas from his shots.
He redefined the dialogue between sound and moving pictures by creating a triangulation henceforth including still images.
The last 4 years he has participated in many art exhibitions and festivals throughout Europe, America & Asia.
Exhibitions – Festivals – Art Fairs 2020
o 2020 - Circles - CICA Museum - Gimpo // Korea, Republic of.
o 2020 - ALC videoart festival - Alicante // Spain
o 2020 - Festival de Arte Lanzarote and Fuerteventura 2020 - Spain
o 2020 - 3ª edición de la Muestra Internacional de Video Arte Faenza(VAF) - Bogota // Colombia
o 2020 -Dumbo Film Festival - semi finalist - New York // USA
o 2020 - Lisbon Film Rendezvous - Lisbonne // Portugal
o 2020 - MADATAC XI - Videodome - Madrid / Spain
o 2020 - Spectral Film Festival - Wisconsin // USA
o 2020 - ArtBox Project Barcelona 1.0 - Barcelona // Spain
o 2020 - 3rd Cosmic Rays Film Festival - Varsity Theater - North Carolina / USA
o 2020 - Pugnant Film Series - Athens // Greece
o 2020 - "Contrasti Vitali" exhibition - OGA - Roma // Italy
o 2020 - 33 Stuttgarter FilmWinter - Stuttgart // Germany
o 2020 - Perspective 2020 - CICA Museum - Gimpo // Korea, Republic of.