Fuji

Fuji is a 14-minute audiovisual installation which is part of Joanie Lemercier’s volcano series. It combines a large scale hand-drawn landscape depicting Fujiyama, augmented by a layer of projected light.

The abstract narratives are inspired by the legend of Kaguya Hime, a folk-tale from the 10th-century and a key element in Japanese culture. It gives an imaginary and poetic vision of this story in an immersive environment.

The installation recreates an abstracted version of the story of princess Kaguya, or The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. This is considered the oldest Japanese fictional narrative or folktale. By using illumination and motion as symbolic elements, the characters and emotional characteristics of the story are transformed into light.

Lemercier climbed Fujiyama before creating this project, describing the mountain as: “...an intangible monument to the glory of nature.”

Joanie Lemercier is a French artist primarily focused on projections of light in space and its influence on our perception. He often centers his work around the idea of the sublime, which is a quality of greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or human intervention.

His work has been exhibited at China Museum of Digital Art (Beijing), Art Basel Miami and Sundance Film Festival 2013.

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