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Through the permutation of the five research fields:

colour, time, signal, language and possibility

an interconnected field of conceptual relations emerges:

 

COLOUR | TIME , TIME | SIGNAL 
POSSIBLE | LANGUAGE , LANGUAGE | TIME

 

are among the fundamental axes of LAb[au]’s artistic research.

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, sensing, transcoding

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installations
available, archive, in progress

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public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals


duration paintings
time words
visual palimpsests
temporal lexica
entropies

signals from another time
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time as a material 

 

extended perception
sensing through data
possible dimensions of reality
speculative meanings
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signals between the visible and the invisible
between established meanings and new senses

 

displayed glyphs

translated signals
possible language systems
emergent lexicons
saturated signs

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language between code and meaning

 

probable combinations
possible readings
stochastic landscapes
random orders
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emergent spaces of meaning

 

a cartography of


interconnected research fields
and relations yet to emerge

POSSIBLES [ PROBABLES

exhibition view of LAb[au]'s solo exhibition possibles | probables at Botanique 2024

POSSIBLES | PROBABLES begins with a simple question: how can an empty page be filled until it becomes entirely black? Each attempt defines a new set of rules: dividing the page, drawing lines, applying proportions, introducing randomness, following numerical sequences … Each produces another possible answer. Chapter after chapter, these operations form an expanding library of what exists and what might exist, raising the question: is there ever an end to filling the page?

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By translating artistic gestures into formal rules, the project questions the conditions of art-making itself. The blank page becomes both the object and subject of the work: a finite framework from which seemingly infinite outcomes can emerge. Thousands of frames transform the space into an architecture of possibilities—never finished, yet complete at every moment.

LIST OF RELATED PROJECTS

POSSIBLES | PROBABLES

Chapter I: Code

Chapter II: Translate
Chapter III - Lexicon

CONCEPTUAL SEQUENCE

Possibles and Probables Densified into Black → All Calculated Results Densified into Black → Transcoded Languages Densified into Black → Written Protocols Densified into Black

LIST OF RELATED KEYWORDS

Writing # Calculating # Transcoding # Code # Translate # Lexicon # Protocols # Algorithms # Recursive Structures # Generative Processes # Library # Possibles and Probables # Probability # Artistic Possibility # Unpredictability # Accumulation # Saturation # Densification # Black

 

Chromatic Combinatorics: mathematical operations rendered visible through colour characteristics

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Operative Notations: notation unfolding fields of possibility through time

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Speculative Signals: probabilistic operations interpreted as signals

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Finite Infinities: seemingly infinite possibilities arising from finite rules​​​​​

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Generative Languages: mathematical operations rendered as alphabets, patterns and spatial languages​

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Chromatic Combinatorics: mathematical operations rendered visible through colour characteristics - soon

Operative Notations: notation unfolding fields of possibility through

time - soon

Speculative Signals: probabilistic operations interpreted as signals

Finite Infinities: seemingly infinite possibilities arising from

finite rules

Generative Languages: mathematical operations rendered as alphabets, patterns and spatial languages - soon

 

linguistic monochromes
colour archives
colour etymologies

colour taxonomies
temporal pigments

invisible signals, visible colours
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colour as a field of knowledge

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