Lola Barraud
About the artwork
Back and Forth in Liquid Synchrony is an interactive installation that invites people to connect through heart rate synchronization. Participants share their heartbeats to another ear via pulse sensors and loudspeakers. When a person leaves, their presence lingers as their heartbeats continue to play. In a soft environment, the visitors’ bodies become part of a round heartless organ, in an interconnected loop of heartbeats. Physically and emotionally, the piece challenges our perceptions of distance and proximity.
This Could Be Our Sextape is an audiovisual installation that examines how the hearts of two people behave during an intimate encounter. As the interaction unfolds, their beats synchronize and desynchronize. A monitor displays a text-based dialogue in which the couple discuss intimacy, sex, love and their relationship. The work raises questions about the boundaries between private and public spaces, as well as the performative and societal issues of sexuality.
This work is funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
About the artist
Lola Barraud (b. 2001) is a French artist, based in Helsinki. She works with performance, sculpture, installation, and sound art. Lola’s work examines human relationships: how we connect, rely on, and seek others. She explores aspects of love: its presence, absence, and various definitions. Her art reflects on how the individual’s sense of bodily awareness can be influenced, challenging the boundaries of personal space and the concept of intimacy.
