Basile Richon

Reminiscence of a sea, 2024

Convoluta Rescoffensis is a worm. At high tide, it hides in the sand to avoid being swept away. At low tide, it feeds in the sun on sugars and amino acids produced by an alga. Extirpated from their environment, worms take up this cosmic choreography, a ghostly trace of the vanishing tides. Basile Richon transposes this fact. The movements of a tide were recorded at four points on aluminum disks on the North Sea coast. A quadraphonic playback device interprets the amplitude of the tide in sound frequencies, like a memorial song in four voices, giving voice to the vestiges of a bygone tide.

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Basile Richon

Born in 1990
Based in Brussels

Basile Richon explores movement, sound and landscape through mechanical and sound devices. His work is characterized by the use of sculptural mechanical devices to inscribe, transcribe or imitate variations in the environment, often influenced by human activities. He is developing a cross-disciplinary artistic practice at the intersection of the visual arts, performance art, contemporary music, cinema and science. He is particularly interested in the instruments that enable us to understand the world around us.