Artist Arnaud Pottier has used projection mapping to bring three sculptures to life in the The Fine-Arts Museum of Lyon in France. In the project called GOLEM, Pottier, of the French BK Digital Art Company, created the startling experience by giving the impression that the statues are blinking, moving their lips and looking around.
The Fine-Arts Museum of Lyon invited Pottier to
unleasg his ‘uncanny augmented sculptures’ experiment on three sculptures; Laurent
Honore Marqueste's Perseus Slaying Medusa, James Pradier's Odalisque, and
Barrias' Les Premières Funérailles.
The project followed a similar one
carried out in February this year called GOLEM X
Apollo, where the disembodied head of the Greek god of
music was used in another projection mapping experiment.
Pottier
said he was inspired to create the project by the
lack of life inherent of virtual imagery and classical sculptural art.