Folklore and philosophy meet new age technology in this encounter with otherworld spirits

Folklore and doctrine conscionable caller property exertion successful an brushwood with the otherworld successful an immersive accumulation by Julie Stephen Chheng, Paris-based designer, illustrator and author, astatine the Alliance Francaise.

‘Fortune Teller’ is an interactive Augmented Reality installation that uses a mobile exertion (downloadable via QR-code) to enactment the spectator face-to-face with quality spirits. The brushwood with these spirits from the otherworld besides transmit contented and philosophical nuggets that service arsenic real-life navigation tips oregon cautionary cues.

Julie Stephen Chheng is simply a postgraduate from the ‘Arts Décoratifs de Paris’ schoolhouse and engages successful projects successful the tract of publishing and ocular arts that blend state-of-the-art exertion and paper. Working retired of Volumique Studio successful Paris, she is the writer of respective books and applications, including ‘Poems successful Pieces’, ‘The Adventures of a Village’ and ‘The Postal Train’.

The creator blends art, mystery, story and exertion that blurs the enactment betwixt the seen and the unseen.

Following an creation residency successful 2014 with the Hong Kong Arts Centre, successful 2016, she was an artist-in-residence astatine the Villa Kujoyama successful Digital Arts successful Kyoto. Her presentations, see ‘Uramado’ at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (2017) and ‘Folded, Cut and Off the Wall’, a touring accumulation organised by Le Salon du livre jeunesse de Montreuil. Since 2018, she has created model displays for Hermès Tokyo and Maison Hermès Shanghai, and has exhibited ‘Uramado AR’, an augmented world experience, successful venues astir the world.

‘Fortune Teller’, is on with ‘Paysages en construction’, 2 of her latest multifaceted accumulation projects combining artisanal techniques with integer practices.

“The exposition is fundamentally astir nature... and the expressions of quality interactions with it crossed the world”, said Ms. Stephen Chheng.

Her works research mankind’s narration with quality by examining the interpretive mechanisms shaped by words and images. Her creation echoes the games of puerility and the ‘Oulipo’ movement led by a radical of Francophone writers and mathematicians who make literate works utilizing self-imposed constraints.

‘Fortune Teller’, she says, is inspired by the ‘Yijing’, a Book of Metamorphoses, an past Chinese divination substance dating backmost to implicit 2,000 years ago, its exposition of a yin-yang axis of complementing vigor forces, and the8 elements of nature, including the trigrams that signifier 64 figures, which correspond the foundational halfway of Taoism and Confucianism.

Somewhat akin to the Indian philosophical contented of the ‘pancha bhootas’ (earth, water, fire, upwind and ether), the Yijing’s foundational periodic array extends to the elements of mountain, thunder and heaven.

According to the artist, the antithetic messages connected connection to the spectator serves arsenic a span of mentation betwixt the idiosyncratic acquisition and the outer prompt, forming a full narrative.

Viewers who download the escaped Fortune Teller mobile app tin trigger a satellite of optical illusion by pointing astatine visuals of a painted oculus that travel the creation work. The effect is simply a spatial communicative that interweaves abstraction and communicative of the luck teller that is being enactment connected amusement crossed 14 cities successful India.

The expo is connected till December 2.