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P A R A D O R Benjamin Seroussi

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KAPLINSKI

The KAPLINSKI project is an experimental film collaboration between a filmmaker - Benjamin Seroussi - and an architect - David Tajchman.

The initial inspiration of the project is a visual reference of a giant rocket taking off from its launching structure then falling apart. As Benjamin Seroussi comments : “these are very different designs but both need each other to make sense until they separate”.

This pluri-disciplinary project proceeds the same way, gathering different arts and ways of structuring the design world, to create a new artistic sense out of their dialogue.

Those two different and complementary structures are also here the human body and the architecture. Through proliferation, one simple constructive item - the same repetitive wooden KAPLA element - is multiplied, accumulated, replicated around the body, creating a containing construction. Step by step, these morphological architectures gathers around bodies in mobile, articulated, and moving envelopes. The human body and the architecture emerges as complementary structures, one is annexing the other and at a certain breaking point, they get dynamically separated. One stays, the other one vanishes. 

There lays the very art of the architect David Tajchman. His constructive techniques, both with collaborators and architecture students, seek to generate spaces by progressive attempts, starting at the body surface for reference to progressively reach an independent state of enveloping and structuring architectural design.

As for Benjamin Seroussi’s video art, it shivers spatial perceptions. They’re no longer stable and long-lasting. In the KAPLINSKI time, structures are built up, embodied and brought to living movement to end up completely shattered ! Moment of time when they reach they’re most dynamical era, which is made persistent in the filmic eye of Seroussi.

One of the things that makes the KAPLINSKI project unique, is the use of creative crafting techniques during conception and shooting. This gives a timeless man-made feeling both in architecture and film-making, in a vivid collaboration of pluri-disciplinary arts. This poetic common gesture, establishes pro-creative relationships with leading designers, art directors, cinematographers, choreographers, and musicians.

Text by Elle Ware / @LWare