Bio:

Sandrine Deumier is a multidisciplinary artist working in the field of performance, poetry and video art whose work investigates post-futurist themes through the development of aesthetic forms related to digital imaginaries.

Interested in storytelling through interactive narratives, she has been working for several years to develop poetic and visual fictions centered on the imaginaries of the living. Ecological concerns and speculative futures are at the heart of her research. Her work mainly focuses on how to imagine new ways of inhabiting the world using new technologies from an animist perspective, where the preservation of natural balances  takes precedence over that of predation, accumulation and unlimited growth.

Exhibition description:

"Following the deer" has been imagined as a visual poem. This fiction describes the various stages of an archery deer-hunting session as it might have been practised 400 years ago by members of the Siraya tribe. Tracking and tracing, reading animal footprints and deciphering the flight of the birds, invocation and thanks to the spirits of the forest, stalking and pursuit, death and sharing, are all crucial stages in this ancestral practice and highlight the ecological implications of a practice concerned with preserving natural balances in a world seen through a whole system of interrelationships. Understanding how to live in a world in which all living beings are linked may enable us to reconfigure our imaginations for viable futures. This work is an invitation to enter the forest in search of the essential.