2024 installation | mixed media
| sculptures | videos | generative printed pictures
Unconcrete is a project born from the dialogue between François Bellabas, a skateboarder, and Benjamin Roulet, a non-skateboarder, exploring the relationship between skateboarding, urban spaces, and the imagination tied to this culture.
By surveying the city and using online resources, they collect a variety of materials (photos, videos, 3D scans, digital archives) which they dissect, alter, and transform, thus revealing urban spaces, mental landscapes, and the complex movements of skateboarders.
Unconcrete presents a body of work where imaginary spots, reminiscent of zen gardens, coexist with temporal sculptures designed from the spaces created by the movement of skateboarding tricks. Urban forms, captured through photogrammetry, are transformed into concrete artifacts, alongside the reinterpretation, 20 years later, of an iconic level from the video game Tony Hawk's Underground. Digital graphic forms also give birth to concrete environments, merging virtual imagination with tangible urbanism.
unconcrete booklet