This project is an editorial for fashion retailer LNCC. Inspired by geology, biology and computer science, it recreates a series of still and animated CGI visuals, displaying a selection of activewear garments. Now, more than ever, we expect garments to have a purpose. This is the time of performance activewear designed with purposeful beauty, and test of aspirational outdoorism, here, digitalise and manipulated by Valentin Gillet. The purpose was to piece together photorealistic landscapes. He pairs his Fractal Gorpcore visuals with sounds by Kamal El Aoufi, to provide a photorealist habitat, for the season's most covetable outdoorswear.
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Gillet's personal project showed at Les Beaux Arts de Paris.
Deus Ordinator is a Latin term that refers to the invisible hand of God. The role of the digital mimetic double and its model, reality, is seemingly inverted here: a water and sand simulation encased in a mechanized wooden frame confronts a photorealistic CGI rendering of hand-drawn patterns in mud. Meanwhile in the background, the cyclic back and forth of the machine creates a hypnotic pace that can be heard throughout the exhibition space, silently echoed by a looped video of a suspended airborne thistle seed in a secluded room. Time is paused for the estranged viewer to look closer into the interstice opened by the pieces, in an attempt to uncover the inner workings at play within, and without.
