DRIFT has realized numerous exhibitions and projects around the world. Their work has been exhibited at Biennale di Venezia (2015, 2022); The Shed (2021); Pace Gallery (2021), The Stedelijk Museum (2018); Victoria & Albert Museum (2009, 2015); Met Museum (2010); amongst others.
Their work is held in the permanent collections of the LACMA; Rijksmuseum; SFMOMA; Stedelijk Museum; and Victoria & Albert Museum. In 2017, DRIFT was awarded Dezeen Designer of the Year.
DRIFT:
Electric Sky
A unique outdoor performance using drones and evoking the works of Vincent van Gogh
Parc des Ateliers
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A unique outdoor performance using drones will be the highlight of the opening of the exhibition Living Landscape.
Titled Electric Sky, the performance will use cutting-edge technologies to create remarkable visuals in the evening sky above Arles, creating images unbound by gravity while referencing the light and textures that mark the unique conditions of Arles, its reality and essence, qualities that have inspired artistic production across history.
The unique performance will enhance the significance of the exhibitions at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh and at LUMA Arles.
Electric Sky is a performance by DRIFT © 2024 commissioned by LUMA.
Practical information :
Date: Friday, May 31st
Gate opening: From 9:00 p.m.
Beginning of performance: From 9:30 p.m.*
Duration: 15 min
Place: Landscaped park, 45 chemin des Minimes, 13200 Arles
Price: Free, booking required
* Times may vary according to weather conditions
DRIFT
Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978) founded studio DRIFT in 2007. With a multidisciplinary team of 65, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances.
DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms, and to re-establish our connection to it.
With both depth and simplicity, DRIFT’s artworks illuminate parallels between man-made and natural structures through deconstructive, interactive, and innovative processes. The artists raise fundamental questions about what life is and explore a positive scenario for the future.
All individual artworks have the ability to transform spaces. The confined parameters of a museum or a gallery do not always do justice to a body of work, rather it often comes to its potential in the public sphere or through architecture. DRIFT brings people, space and nature on to the same frequency, uniting audiences with experiences that inspire a reconnection to our planet.