THE WHO is a basic series of maximum three intercultural creators being featured monthly in HeathersChamber. 阿太的密室从2020年起每月开展”谁“系列亮出顶多三位跨文化的创作者。 WHO can be artist, painter, writer, poet, editor, publisher, philosopher, photographer, designer, architect, scientist, filmmaker, musician, art collector, art dealer, antique dealer, founder of an art platform, a distinctive "qi pa", a grassroot off mainstreams, a daring storyteller, a soul catcher, or a street performer with a voice rumbling like the sea of storms. "谁”可以是艺术家、画家、作家、诗人、编辑、出版商、哲学家、摄影师、设计师、建筑师、科学家、电影人、音乐家、收藏家、艺术品交易商、古董商、艺术平台创始人、有独特艺术见解的“奇葩”人物、非主流创意“草根”、勇敢无畏的说书人、心灵捕手、或激昂澎湃的街头艺人。 So honored to announce THE WHO of November goes to the 3D digital artist Maxime Drouet. 十一月的"谁“，很荣幸邀请到3D数字艺术家馬克西姆·杜洛埃.
---"THE WHO" Series XI Poster, 2020.11 | "谁“系列XI海报
Foreword 前言
Maxime Drouet, is quite the opposite of Keith Hall. He dares to try almost everything new during the process of his creating, and probably enjoys too much playing with reflections and shadows. Having a good understanding of the light, he takes 3D as photography. Sometimes he would spend numerous hours polishing a video, asking himself: "What if...", "What if...", "What if...". Like a "mood ball" rolling for the inspiration of composition, he creates only when he knows what to do. As a 3D artist, he relies more on his craft skill and technique. However, he appears to be potentially more than that, with the "beast" living inside him or the "motion" occurring in his work. He might need to "sink" from his fierce passion or the lightness of his life, for a greater style. But seen from his video &Latest Works & the 3 series featured as below, he seems to be inclined to these possible directions: minimalism, expressionism and abstract art.
Give me a brush and a canvas, and I absolutely don't know what to do with them. But with 3D, I can correct every mistake I make until I get what I want, even for some "artistic" shots. Creation comes along without even thinking about it.
▲ Motion and Silence: an exhibition at La Biennale the Venice in August 2019, directed by Carlo Rossi and Penny Kwan, music byGianluigi Misurelli. The purpose is to promote Chinese culture, particularly the “soul of martial art”.The sphere represents immobility whereas the line represents motion. The combination of both is essentially the martial art performer interacting with himself, and with the environment; the sphere being himself. 动与静：2019年8月受邀威尼斯双年展，由卡洛·罗西和Penny Kwan执导，音乐由吉安路易吉·米索莱利配制。目的是推广中国文化，尤其是“武术之魂”。 影像中，静点与动线两者的结合，本质上是武术表演者与自己和环境的互动，而圆点便是自己。
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Maxime Drouet received two bachelor's degrees in pure mathematics and Mathematics of Economy. He has been a teacher for a few years and taught several subjects: maths, 3D modeling, computer science, French and some English (that always makes him laugh). He came upon 3D modeling three years ago when he was looking for interesting projects to do with his students. And it so happened that, as he was learning it, he deeply fell in love with the process of creation and the infinite possibilities inherent to 3D software. It is utterly satisfying to be able to do something that looks exactly the way he wants.
"I wouldn't call myself an artist unless I sold my work, which I did. 我不会称自己为艺术家，除非我卖掉自己的作品。其实，我有卖掉了一些。"
Series 01Human | 人类
Watch Me Sleep 看我睡
Watch Me Shine 看我亮
Watch Me Change 看我变
Watch Me Blossom 看我盛
Watch Me Die 看我死
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ASK YOURSELF. When we go to work on Monday morning, when we stay at home on a rainy weekend, or when we go on a date with someone for the first time, are we the same? This Human Condition series explores two sides: 1) how do we evolve along our life? [a perpetual question of identity]; 2) how do we perceive the changes in our life? Why are we seen so pretty today and ugly tomorrow? Why are we sometimes so important and sometimes insignificant? Is this a cover we put on ourselves, or are we actors?
What's in our mind? - A volume displacement and refraction work, all about light. This is a perception of our thoughts, our mood, even the image we have about ourselves. We are exposed and naked, protected and exploited. These works have two aims: being visually strong and representing the artist's inner feelings that occured at the moment when each piece was sensually created and recreated. There is such beauty of making them that each shot comes from turning a model into a cloud, and a texture is used to displace that cloud in many ways. It is merely a work of randomness and experimentation. In other words, the physics and mathematics underlying are beautiful. The artist has tried again and again, changing each and every possible parameter until it described his message. The artist did not choose how the displacement occured, but he got to decide the feeling he wanted to convey.
Blacksmith at the Morgue. In 2047, robots do the dirty work humans don't want to do. In this morgue - a factory fallen into disuse - robots reach the end of their life. Like rubbish thrown away and forgotten, no one would touch the dismantled heads, which still need to be disposed. The artist tried to emphasize the eerie atmosphere, pushing the feeling of abandonment down to bones. The place of decaydence, garbage and filth is to recall our memory. The dismantled heads are ourselves, in the past or at present, with emotions, thoughts, even shame that we want to get rid of. They are those things we tell no one; those things we hope to forget; those things we wish to destroy. However, what is dismantled is meant to be recycled. Our thoughts buried so deep will eventually come back. The windows turn so dirty the light barely comes through; the alley gives a general air of loneliness, decrepitude and neglect; the two spiders scratch the broken rusty face, and such scratches are our obsessive fear. One is the Blacksmith who smells of disgusting yellow-machinery taint and whose role is to break things down then recycle them; the other the Blacksmith's assistant who is green with slight variations of orange-pink and whose role is to stimulate fear. What happens in our mind is often a battle between our fear and our weakness in a place that is deeply anchored inside us.