Sandrine Deumier

Sandrine Deumier is a pluridisciplinary artist working in the fields of performance, poetry and video art whose work investigates post-futurist themes through the de- velopment of aesthetic forms related to digital imaginaries.

Passionate about digital storytelling and immersive artistic experiences, she has been working for several years to develop poetic and visual fictions centred on the imaginary world of the living. Ecological concerns and speculative futures are at the heart of her research. Her various works focus on imagining new ways of inhabiting the world using new technologies from an animist perspective, where the preservation of natural balances takes precedence over that of predation, accumulation and unlimited growth.

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Absolute Space Artists-in-Residence Program for 2025 ❹ Exhbition Opening

｜ DEEP-SKIN - à fleur de peau｜

Sandrine Deumier

Exhibition Period：2025.10.11 Sat - 10.26 Sun

Opening：2025.10.12 Sun 15:00-18:00

Forum: 2025.10.12 Sun 15:30-17:00
Panelist：Chen, Liang-Hsuan (Artist)

Opening Hours：Wed-Sun 12:00-18:00

Venue：SanHo Art Lab

Address：No. 14, Sanhe St., South Dist., Tainan City

Organizer： Absolute Space AIR

Advisor： Ministry of Culture

Multimedia installation

Synthetic fur, orchids, soil, shells, digital animation (9min), VR video (3min)

The multimedia installation « DEEP-SKIN - à fleur de peau » explores different ways of achieving a new form of intimacy where the function of touch would no longer have any reason to exist, but where other modes of feelings would be invented.

If the new modes of online relationships allow for quasi-real intimacy, what does this sanitized intimacy reveal, where real bodies are transformed into screen-bodies? What is a feeling of zero distance between bodies that no longer exist? What is missing in this kind of relationship and what is new in this mode of existence?

Does the loneliness of screens really threaten our real lives? Isn't the abandonment of the body what humanity has long desired? Aren't our smooth, filtered digital identities the secret choice we have made? And what if, on the contrary, digital identities allowed us to imagine new ways of inventing bodies and exploring new ways of being?

« DEEP-SKIN - à fleur de peau » attempts to imagine future human relationships in the digital age, based on new emotions or new ways of feeling that we do not yet know. Through a digitally animated story and a short virtual reality experience, the work explores a new mode of intimacy where touch would no longer have a reason to exist, but where other modes of relationship would be imagined through another skin, more capable of emotionally and psychologically touching the human spirit : a kind of even more tactile skin, connected to new emotional depths.

WORKSHOP :« DEEP-SKIN » How can we imagine post-natural sensory devices ?

Date:205.10.8
Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art, Tainan National Universtiy of the Arts

Based on the concepts developed in the digital animation « DEEP-SKIN - à fleur de peau »* created during the residency, students will be asked to design their own emotional communication devices, considering what a world might look like where touch no longer exists but is replaced by other forms of intimate communication.

During the workshop, we will work on designing futuristic objects that evoke a sense of “post-intimacy.” We will try to imagine new sensory objects designed as extensions of a human psyche that is becoming increasingly artificial. We will explore possible new forms of intimacy generated by technological devices.

The work produced during the workshop (drawings, objects, plans, diagrams, texts, etc.) will be presented alongside that of the artist in residence during the exhibition at Absolute Space, SanHo gallery from October 11 to 26, 2025.