Dream Evaporation Mechanics is a unique work where technology meets the imagination: a robotic arm transcribes dreams generated by a random text generator. As the process unfolds, the ink used to record these stories gradually disappears upon contact with light, much like our own dreams that evaporate the moment we wake up. This installation invites viewers to contemplate the fleeting nature of memory and the delicate boundary between digital creation and human subconscious experience.
Originally from Quebec (Canada), Véronique Béland has lived in France since 2010, where she graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in 2012. She also holds a Master’s degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Her artistic practice, which straddles the line between media arts and literature, focuses on phenomena that are elusive on a human scale, in a constant attempt to examine what appears empty in order to reveal its content. Through various translation or transcoding protocols that draw on both the worlds of art and science while maintaining a close connection to the concept of archiving, her works seek to bridge the gap between the perceptible and the imperceptible, from which a certain form of narrative emerges.