Marie Dubus ︎

Hole of Life is a multi-media project that plays back and forth between digital aesthetic and real life objects and persons, therefore creating an in between dimensions. It uses 3D scans of Berlin’s metro as a background, and Louisa Trapier and Tendre’s avatars as characters.

The metro is a reversed mirror of the city, a transitional space that everybody uses to travel but nobody wants to stay in unless as a shelter. If it was emptied of its function, it would be a vast labyrinth. In the dimension where the underground becomes a being, and where two entities wonder in it, they are fetuses stuck in a gigantic belly. Finding their ways in the labyrinth is an initiatory tale. The story touches on concepts of more than human and relationships between virtual and physical life experiences.

Louisa and Tendre’ images change according to the project through the digitalization of their bodies or the copy past and modifications of their faces. It raises the importance of their consent. They examine how much this virtual profile belong to themselves, to what extend someone else could use it. They digest trends that have appeared on social media, in order to recall the matter of everyone’s identities in a digitalized world.

Hole of Life

7 videos
1 TV screen
6 smartphones
6 silicone phone cases



In collaboration with:

Tendre

(3D model, poetry writtings)


Louisa Trapier

(3D model, phone cases)







Hole of Life, 2024 Douces Amères, La Volonté 93 , Saint-Ouen (FR)

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