Qr Code
Le projet QR codes sculptures et QR codes bas-reliefs développé par Vincent Du Bois consiste à extraire de la 2e dimension le graphisme des QR codes générés informatiquement pour les reproduire dans la 3e dimension. Ici on arrache au digital pour rendre à l’analogique. While technology tends to reproduce everything virtually, it is here a process of inversion that takes place. We draw from the digital sphere to feed the material. The dialogue between matter and the digital revolution being a central theme of VDB, through this series of works the artist deals with abstraction on two levels; functional abstraction (typical of the brain) and structural abstraction (virtuality). The QR code, flat and strictly functional, is transformed in the material and becomes a work of art. From an image infinitely reproduced on our screens, frozen in marble, it becomes unique. Also, as a bas-relief, it inspires touch, like a Braille script, giving back a little of its share to a sense bypassed by the digital sphere. The principle of the coded message (algorithms translating links, words or sentences) is preserved since standard or personalized messages are reproduced in these objects. The sculpted messages may or may not remain legible, depending on the materials and finishes chosen. Here it is the allusion to the secret or lost language that matters. As QR codes are based on algorithms that are inaccessible to the human brain, it is likely that they will sooner or later become a page in the archaeology of the future, joining the mysteries that tomorrow’s generations will have to decode.
