LUMA Arles / Diana Thater : Practical Effects

Deprived of all human, animal or mechanical contact, the colorful but weathered robot can only find companionship in the manicured topiary figures it tends, putting forward a strange and tragicomic vision of how the organic and inorganic worlds might one day collide, and support each other in unexpected ways.

The title of the work, Practical Effects, refers to the cinematic art of creating analog special effects without resorting to digital enhancements or other post-production...