French artist Vincent Leroy likes to use large spaces as an experimentation field. After the Icelandic glaciers or the Canarian volcanoes, it is in the Joshua Tree desert that he imagined his latest work Floating Lenses.Transparent and airy, the mobile seems to defy the laws of gravity and evolves on the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible.
Its structure, in aluminum and carbon, has been optimized to be as light as possible. At the slightest breath, the fresnel lenses located at its ends come alive and seem to literally float in the air. According to its silent movements, the mobile creates a harmonious dialogue with its environment. For the French artist, this dialogue is essential : « I want my works to be part of the real world and at the same time offer a different perspective by adding a poetic or dreamlike dimension ».
Here, the optical and moving discs overlay the landscape to capture fragments and take them into the air, the transparent surfaces reflect the light and the colors of the Californian sky while their hypnotic ballet reveals the presence of the air which surrounds them, usually imperceptible.Floating Lenses oscillate between the visible and the invisible, reality and illusion.
