Electric Dreams
We don't just show amusing or aesthetically pleasing surrealist images. We try to question our relationship with reality, images and the contemporary world.
Electric DreamsElectric Dreams is an artistic duo, both born in the 80s, at the dawn of the digital era that was to turn their imaginations upside down. Their trajectories are marked by a quest for elsewhere, an insatiable thirst for travel and discovery. Marc grew up on a windswept, seaswept island, where the horizon seemed to promise infinite elsewhere. After studying sociology, he took to the open seas, travelling the world to feed his curiosity and broaden his horizons. Having spent a lot of time drawing in the four corners of the globe, he returned to France during the COVID pandemic. During a difficult period in his career, he discovered artificial intelligence, which quickly became his new field of experimentation. Caroline's background is in art and image. After studying art and starting her career as a photographer's assistant, she became art director for a magazine, all the while pursuing a consuming passion for photography. Her travels have also taken her to the farthest reaches of landscapes, where she has spent time capturing numerous images. The discovery of AI is an additional tool that she adds to her work. Their paths crossed, and their artistic alchemy blossomed under the name Electric Dreams, in reference to the novel by Philippe K. Dick and a film from the 1980s. Together, they revisit and reinvent the stories of their wanderings, diverting images gleaned here and there to fashion hybrid visions, at the crossroads of the real and the imaginary, between nature and technology. With a touch of humour and a hint of irreverence...
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We always try to tell a little story, a narrative approach that involves imagining scenes as if we'd actually seen them. Like stolen moments from real life. But scenes that catch our attention by their singularity, their relevance. Something different, surprising, offbeat...
We even push the rendering to seek out image textures reminiscent of film. Grain, for authenticity. Very photographic lighting choices, evoking vintage atmospheres, sometimes even cinematographic rendering.
