Erwan Sene to launch the ‘Journal of Unsolved Questions’; half exhibition, half e book and half album

JUnQ, or the Journal of Unsolved Questions, is modelled on a parallel train: to sketch music and to attain sculptures. Part exhibition, half e book and half album launch, JUnQ seeks to suggest a collaborative language that binds the algorithmic wants of a synthetic pop star to the efficiency of the artist himself. Boundaries between actuality and artifice are blurred in a steady chain of confrontation and sublimation, whereby a romance between analog evolution and digital experimentation is born.

The immersive venture launched by PAN represents Erwan Sene’s debut album and the multifaceted nature of his method. Composed like a refrain of fantastical beasts, the album wanders atmospherically via a fogged wooden. Sounds are by no means used for his or her default operate–– they’re sculpted, distorted and amplified, changing into hybrids of themselves. A haunting banshee, the monstrous growl of an Orc, Siren songs wafting via the bushes–– these and extra are recreated with sinuous violins, muffled harpsichord and digital devices, culminating in a a vibrant “jungle” of sound.

The JUnQ e book
Each web page of the JUnQ e book dives into the neon constructions of Sene’s Cronenberg-like mutations: miniatures, fashions and air flow particulars echo the micro-evolution of Sene’s “imaginary mundane.” Moments of object recognition flicker earlier than receding from view. Appropriating the mechanisms of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sene seeks to conjure the sense of entrapment introduced on by an infection, affecting containment within the microscopic abstractions he presents of his personal sculptural work. Casting his contained biotope as a buddy, somewhat than a foe, the fragmented view of those works imbues them with a way of intimacy and primacy.

The JUnQ e book encompasses a bespoke sort designed in collaboration with Marie Mam-Sai Bellier and Marine Stephan. Evocative of archeology and the imagined glyphs traced by misplaced civilizations, the kind offers an (il)legible scripture to JUnQ’s multi-fold universe.

Erwan Sene (b.1991) is an artist and musician based mostly in Paris. His composite physique of labor is led by a sculptural apply that unfolds on a number of ranges–– reprising, digesting and warping the objects that encompass him. He creates polyphonous mise-en-scènes, between baroque remanence and home surrealism, addressing themes of contamination, idiopathy and science fiction.

Tracklist:
01. Zones
02. Lowghost
03. Strangefruit
04. Echo When Talking 05. Smoke
06. Tilt
07. Mirama
08. Siren
09. Block That Kill
10. Black Out Bear

Available by way of Juno

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