{"id":601,"date":"2008-11-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reynalddrouhin.net\/wrks\/?p=601"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:47:13","slug":"ghost-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reynalddrouhin.net\/wrks\/ghost-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e en 2008-2009 \u00e0 la galerie Numeriscausa \u00e0 Paris, Ghost Walk<\/em> r\u00e9unit un ensemble d’\u0153uvres autour d’une m\u00eame question : quelle forme donner aux pr\u00e9sences anonymes et immat\u00e9rielles qui traversent les r\u00e9seaux ?<\/p>\n

Le titre Ghost Walk<\/em> joue sur plusieurs significations. L’expression peut d\u00e9signer une promenade \u00e0 travers des lieux r\u00e9put\u00e9s hant\u00e9s, mais elle appartient aussi \u00e0 un registre familier o\u00f9 \u00ab ghost walk \u00bb signifie s’\u00e9clipser discr\u00e8tement, quitter un lieu sans pr\u00e9venir ni dire au revoir. Ces deux sens se superposent dans l’exposition : parcourir un territoire peupl\u00e9 de pr\u00e9sences absentes, mais aussi y passer soi-m\u00eame, laisser une trace puis dispara\u00eetre.<\/p>\n

Dans I.P.C. (Internet Protocol City)<\/em>, les connexions des internautes sont transform\u00e9es en architectures. Chaque adresse IP devient un \u00e9l\u00e9ment d’une ville en perp\u00e9tuelle recomposition, constitu\u00e9e par les passages successifs de visiteurs qui ne se rencontrent pas et dont seuls subsistent des identifiants et des traces. La ville appara\u00eet ainsi comme un territoire paradoxal : construite par une multitude de pr\u00e9sences humaines, elle demeure pourtant vide de corps.<\/p>\n

L’exposition d\u00e9place cette logique du r\u00e9seau vers l’espace physique. Cit\u00e9<\/em> mat\u00e9rialise en bois br\u00fbl\u00e9 l’architecture issue d’I.P.C.<\/em>, tandis que Plan<\/em> en r\u00e9duit la structure \u00e0 une grille. Les photographies Smokes<\/em> et Ghost Fair<\/em> introduisent des formes plus incertaines, entre apparition, disparition et paysage urbain. Les n\u00e9ons Keyword<\/em> et System Failure<\/em> font quant \u00e0 eux entrer dans l’exposition le vocabulaire des moteurs de recherche et de la d\u00e9faillance informatique.<\/p>\n

Un imaginaire de science-fiction traverse l’ensemble : villes d\u00e9sert\u00e9es, tours obscures, fum\u00e9es, syst\u00e8mes d\u00e9faillants et pr\u00e9sences difficiles \u00e0 localiser. Il ne s’agit cependant pas de construire un r\u00e9cit futuriste, mais d’utiliser ces formes pour rendre perceptible une transformation d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 l’\u0153uvre. Dans le r\u00e9seau, l’individu peut \u00eatre pr\u00e9sent sans appara\u00eetre, localis\u00e9 par une donn\u00e9e tout en restant anonyme, physiquement ailleurs mais actif dans un espace partag\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Le fant\u00f4me n’est donc pas seulement une figure surnaturelle. Il devient une mani\u00e8re de penser la pr\u00e9sence dans les r\u00e9seaux : \u00eatre l\u00e0 sans \u00eatre physiquement pr\u00e9sent, appara\u00eetre sous la forme d’une adresse, d’une connexion ou d’une donn\u00e9e, puis s’effacer. Le \u00ab walk \u00bb d\u00e9signe autant le parcours du visiteur que ce mouvement de passage et de retrait.<\/p>\n

La promenade annonc\u00e9e par le titre devient ainsi ambigu\u00eb. Le visiteur parcourt un territoire peupl\u00e9 de traces et de pr\u00e9sences absentes, mais il appartient lui-m\u00eame \u00e0 ce monde. Sa connexion, son passage et les donn\u00e9es qu’il produit font de lui un autre fant\u00f4me du r\u00e9seau. Le d\u00e9placement ne m\u00e8ne donc pas seulement \u00e0 la rencontre de figures spectrales : il r\u00e9v\u00e8le progressivement la condition du visiteur dans l’espace num\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n

Ghost Walk<\/em> met ainsi en relation r\u00e9seau et territoire, pr\u00e9sence et absence, donn\u00e9es et architecture, monde physique et espace num\u00e9rique. L’exposition constitue un point de convergence entre plusieurs recherches qui se poursuivront ensuite dans le travail : rendre perceptibles les infrastructures du r\u00e9seau et donner une forme aux traces invisibles produites par ceux qui les traversent.<\/p>\n

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2008-09, vues de l’exposition Ghost Walk<\/a> du 14 novembre 2008 au 14 janvier 2009 \u00e0 la galerie Numeriscausa, Paris. (affiche<\/a> de l’exposition)<\/p>\n

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Autres vues de l’exposition Ghost Walk<\/a><\/p>\n

Projets pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s : (Courtesy de l\u2019artiste)
\nSystem Failure<\/em><\/a>, 2008, n\u00e9on vert clignotant mont\u00e9 sur plexiglass, 140 x 18 cm.
\nCit\u00e9<\/em><\/a>, 2008, sculpture en bois brul\u00e9, 79 x 79 x 79 cm.
\nPlan<\/em><\/a>, 2008, s\u00e9rigraphie sur papier, 60 x 70 cm, 50 exemplaires.
\nI.P.C. 1 & 2<\/em><\/a>, 2007, tirage lambda sur diasec avec chassis aluminium, 67,50 x 67,50 cm.
\nI.P.C. 4<\/em><\/a>, 2008, tirage lambda sur diasec avec chassis aluminium, 67,50 x 67,50 cm.
\nI.P.C.<\/em><\/a> Internet Protocol City, 2008, site web.
\nSmokes<\/em><\/a>, 2008, s\u00e9rie de 15 photographies, 30 x 45 cm.
\nGhost Fair<\/em><\/a>, 2008, s\u00e9rie de 32 photographies \u201cinfra-rouge\u201d, 150 x 100 cm.
\nKeyword<\/em><\/a>, 2008, n\u00e9on rouge mont\u00e9 sur plexiglass, 40 x 15 cm.
\nMonochrome(s) R.<\/em><\/a>, 2006, tirage lambda sur diasec avec chassis aluminium, 84,67 x 84,67 cm.<\/p>\n

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resented in 2008-2009 at Galerie Numeriscausa in Paris, Ghost Walk<\/em> brings together a group of works around a common question: what form can be given to the anonymous and immaterial presences that move through networks?<\/p>\n

The title Ghost Walk<\/em> plays on several meanings. The expression can refer to a walk through places believed to be haunted, but it can also evoke the act of slipping away discreetly, leaving without warning or saying goodbye. These meanings overlap within the exhibition: moving through a territory inhabited by absent presences, but also passing through it oneself, leaving a trace, then disappearing.<\/p>\n

In I.P.C. (Internet Protocol City)<\/em>, Internet connections are transformed into architecture. Each IP address becomes an element within a city in constant recomposition, built from the successive passages of visitors who never meet and of whom only identifiers and traces remain. The city thus appears as a paradoxical territory: constructed by a multitude of human presences, yet devoid of bodies.<\/p>\n

The exhibition shifts this network logic into physical space. Cit\u00e9<\/em> materializes the architecture generated by I.P.C.<\/em> in charred wood, while Plan<\/em> reduces its structure to a grid. The photographs Smokes<\/em> and Ghost Fair<\/em> introduce more uncertain forms, suspended between appearance, disappearance, and urban landscape. The neon works Keyword<\/em> and System Failure<\/em> bring the vocabulary of search engines and computer failure into the exhibition space.<\/p>\n

An imaginary of science fiction runs through the whole exhibition: deserted cities, dark towers, smoke, failing systems, and presences that are difficult to locate. The aim, however, is not to construct a futuristic narrative, but to use these forms to make perceptible a transformation already at work. Within the network, an individual can be present without appearing, located through data while remaining anonymous, physically elsewhere yet active within a shared space.<\/p>\n

The ghost is therefore not merely a supernatural figure. It becomes a way of thinking about presence within networks: being there without being physically present, appearing as an address, a connection, or a piece of data, and then fading away. The \u201cwalk\u201d refers both to the visitor\u2019s passage and to this movement of appearance and withdrawal.<\/p>\n

The walk announced by the title thus becomes ambiguous. The visitor moves through a territory populated by traces and absent presences, but also belongs to that world. Their connection, passage, and the data they produce turn them into another ghost of the network. Movement therefore does not simply lead to encounters with spectral figures: it gradually reveals the visitor\u2019s own condition within digital space.<\/p>\n

Ghost Walk<\/em> thus brings together network and territory, presence and absence, data and architecture, physical world and digital space. The exhibition forms a point of convergence between several lines of research that continue throughout the work: making network infrastructures perceptible and giving form to the invisible traces produced by those who pass through them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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