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This video installation documents six surveys carried out in the peri-urban area of Liège using the Vabor(d) device — a wheelbarrow equipped with a camera. These surveys are divided into two sets of nine fifteen-minute sequences, conducted between October 2024 and June 2025, for a total of 45 km.
Presented in the form of two separate grids, in the manner of surveillance monitors, the eighteen moving frames generate a visual and auditory saturation that opens the piece to a non-hierarchical reading of the tool’s viewpoint. While a linear progression from left to right or by steps remains perceptible within each grid, the overall structure allows for multiple entry points. The viewer can thus move freely between the two compositions, while also being able to re-engage at any moment, composing their own perceptual trajectory.
It is also a way for me to explore narrative forms between the frames, while leaving the possibility of engaging with them — or not.
Surveys as a pretext.
A way to pay attention again,
to the living,
to the inert, to what endures.
Let us retrain the gaze,
inhabit the ruins of tomorrow.
- Quentin Plazar
