VINCENT CERAUDO Portfolio for Christina Mackie Fondazione Antonio Rati 2018

The Out Of BodyHD video transferred on 35 mm12 ‘min2017

The Out of Body show the artist sleeping in his studio in a meditative states inducing an Out of Body Experience. This recorded experience through the videocamera project the viewer into a a subjective hallucinated view. It seems the camera is scanning the space of the artist studio as is own body, disorienting the viewer progressively. The camera floats and move freely exploring at the same time the physical space of the studio in all details as it appears also to journey towards the artist self’s centre. The artist is transported somewhere else in the studio outside of his own body, immersed in this floating realitiy, as if the destination itself was the journey.

Photograms on negatives made of differents drugs which have the specifi-cities to reproduce or to induce an Out Of Body Experience.

Test Strips B/w photograms on negativesscanned and enlargedsize variable2017

The Observatoryvideo 4k18 min2016https://vimeo.com/169589687password : chine

The Observatoryvideo 4k18 min2016

Searching for the inaccessibleslide projection photographs, extract taken from the series2015

On April 19, 2015, I went into the Gurbantunggut desert in the north west China. I traveled from Urumuqi , accompanied with a guide following an itinerary on 600 km keeping the North East direction in order to arrive to the coordinates of the terrestrial pole of inaccessibility 46°16’58,8 N.A 88° 7’ 58.8 E which corresponding to the most remote point of the oceans on earth. I pursued the end of the travel by foot when the road does not permitted me to keep going more far away, I walked during fifteen kilometers until arriving to the area which cor-respond to the physical retranscription of the coordinates 46°16’58,8 N.A 88° 7’ 58.8 E. A trailer of the travel for the agency which financed my project and a series of photographs taken during the exploration constitute the form of this experience.

Searching for the inaccessible46°16’58,8 N.A 88° 7’ 58.8 EColour photograph40x 60 cm2015

Physic / Psychic Bookscanned and enlargedsize variable2015

Absynth Opium and MagicInstallations ( 3m x 1m80x 2m20)Tubular, B/w Photographs size variable2015

Absynth, Opium and magikTrailer video,slide projection photographs) extract taken from the series2015Absynth Opium and Magic

Details and view of installation, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille.2015

After the purest coincidence of discovering in the suburbs of Hanghzou, a replica of Paris as an utopian post-modernism architec-tural project, I decided to live for a week in this replica city located more than 11000km away from Paris. Using the drone camera technology which remind surveillance and control, I explored the physical and psychological architectural limits of the place. The video documents the exploration of this empty city, as if I was going through the double or an abandoned future of my own life.

https://vimeo.com/138388303password : chine

Paris City Ghostvidéo 4K5 min2015

On Thursday, April 24, 2014, a person with ability of extrasensory perception who can locate distant places is invited in a studio. He tries for almost two hours to locate a remote location in which the artist let any prior information (Only the artist has the knowledge of the target location). A video recording of the “remote viewer” (person trying to locate) and target leagues recorded in live constitute the form of this experience. https://vimeo.com/153264508

The distance between the viewer and I (part1)Installation of two vidéos- 9’37” each2014

The distance between the viewer and I (part1)Installation of two vidéos- 9’37” each2014view at the MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), Melbourne.

On Thursday, April 24, 2014, a person with ability of extrasensory perception who can locate distant places is invited in a studio. He tries for almost two hours to locate a remote location in which the artist let any prior information (Only the artist has the knowledge of the target location). A video recording of the “remote viewer” (person trying to locate) and target leagues recorded in live constitute the form of this experience. https://vimeo.com/123480860

The distance between the viewer and I (part2)Installation of two vidéos- 9’37” each2014

The distance between the viewer and I (part2)Installation of two vidéos- 9’37” each2014view at the MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), Melbourne.

The Walk is a series of photographs taken during a silencious night walk the 21 of July 2013 in Geno-va Italy. Ten years ago, the same night police repres-sion killed activists during riots G8. The Walk started from the historic heart of the city until the place where the student Carlo Giuliani was killed. From dusk to dawn, these pho-tographs taken as a ritual act of reactivation docu-ment a certain immersive aspect of this moment

The WalkB/w Photographs and texts. 6x8 cm each2014

view at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova.

CoruscationB/w photographs 40x60 cm2014

Coruscat ion is a series of photographic experimenta-tion based on the direct ef-fect of light on the surface of photogra- phic paper, burning it by sparking.

Half counsciousB/W photographs 30x40 cm2011/2014

Half-counscious is a work where I photo-graphed my domestic objects at home mostly late at night, in sleep states when the per-ception of these beco-mes modified. How do these objects manage to attract us? or for some of them, how do they haunt us? Using my memory, I mash them up together, so-metimes I fall sleep before, it’s a som-nambular approach of sculpture.

Telepathics objects.B/w photographs.sample taken from the series.2012/2014

These pictures results of a photographic work consisting in an inventory of all ordinary objects in the world transformed by telepathy( In a scientific context of research). These photographs shows the produce of ordinary objects modified during Psychokinesis and telekinesis experiments on an adolescent at the Institut Metapsychique International in Paris.

PoltergeistB/w photography and headphones diffusing the sound recorded iside the house 120x 140 cm

My research explore the border which divide the psychic reality from the objective one. It is an attempt to catch the incerti-tude which forms our reality. I am interested in the moments when the reality slip through our hands, when reality and imagination amal-gamate. I try to initiate experiences by playing with these moments or to reconstitute them in order to ex-plore them, furthermore to confront them to our ordinary perception. With the recording possibilities of photography, video and sound I try to capture the interferences and the gaps in order to questions reality and its perceptible and acceptable boundaries. I recall what comes from these moments of these «ethe-real recordings». These moments of bearings loss and troubles, allow us to push aside any form of control to render a space unstable and un-certain in order to make it loose its apparent reality.

Books, other philosophic, literary, esoteric or scientific reviews, music and other things created by artists (or not) are my principal inspiration.I am fascinated by facts that are simply excluded from our concep-tion of reality, I think they probably belong to some different worlds or states of perception or even to some unknown to us. From the camera angle to the way I install the images in the exhibition space, I use photography and video to blur the lines between fiction and reality.