OWR, the DIGITAL JOURNEY

Owr, the Digital Journey is an invitation to experience an installation and free paths by going from the physical to the virtual, at L’AbRi.

This humble space of resistance around creation, is transformed into a place of light that plays with the imagination… This safe of a former post office in Villerville, which has become a temporary space for contemporary art with an emphasis on digital arts, reopens its doors on Friday, September 20.

Here the discovery begins at the doorstep where the space of stones and bricks is transformed into a new and powerful relief, mainly made up of survival blankets and recycled paper, setting the scene for a golden cave that awakens the retinas with its multiple reliefs and reflections. Owr in Hebrew is light. In a certain ambivalence, the symbolism of the material of the survival blanket comes to cover almost the entire space where we find ourselves immersed in a place that tries to erase both the emergencies of a daily malaise, ordinary misfortune, and at the same time offers the possibilities of a journey to the heart of an ideal space, an apology for liberation through knowledge as evoked by Plato in the myth of the cave. Here, to replace the open-air shadow theater, it is the visit of a virtual and luminous space that is proposed. In this journey, two major themes: to pursue a lifestyle of junk and illusions while consuming without changing anything, or to take decisions for the decades to come? To become the hero who comes out of Plato’s cave to tell the prisoners what he saw and guide them towards this light or to prefer to continue his path towards a growing disaster by abandoning himself to the oppressive rules of our conscience of the world? The idea here is to heal our lifestyles, and rethink an ideal life, to achieve it: Dreaming again in a digital passage, Géraldine Postel offers a journey starting from this cave, and takes you into a virtual space using a VR headset, then from one Orw cave to another, you will have to find the exit to arrive in a flamboyant natural space, and an open-air art foundation. Discovering during a 15-minute Day/Night rotation, a blank space, on the edge of a lake, surrounded by mountains, where works are displayed, which are part of the collection of Géraldine Postel and David Magnin and designed in 2018.

Through the AbRi, through its hybrid references and inspirations, Géraldine Postel poses a reflection on the different worlds of the conscious, immersed in the luminosity of a space representing a cave, and an installation referring to one of Plato’s allegories of the cave, where the prisoners see only their shadows, their dark past, and the theater of their life which is reflected on the wall of their prison, in the open air. Where it would be a question of turning towards the
light emanating from the skylight that gives a view of the outside and the prospect of leaving behind everything we regret, changing our lives, our habits, finding what we could have called early on a form of awareness and resilience.

At the exit of the cave, we find the other light, the small garden of the Shelter, which offers us to see all the possibilities open to feeling a rebound of resistance.

The invitation to the digital journey lasts about fifteen minutes, people with claustrophobia or epilepsy problems are asked to be extra vigilant and to minimize the time of the experience to a duration not exceeding 10 minutes.
Authorized from 10 years old.

The Shelter is open by appointment, by sending a text message to 0676780562 and by email
contact@geraldinepostel.org