CLÉMENT LAMBELET
The many futures of our empty house
The many futures of our empty house is a research project in residence in the city of Gibellina. One of the city’s houses will become the setting and main subject of a series of images created during the project, focused on the concept of habitat, risk, and the simulation of a near future. To create climate simulations, the artist makes use of artificial intelligence and disaster risk detection via seismograph, satellite data and specialist software.
What emerges from the images are the many possible futures this never-inhabited house could experience.
How might it appear, for example, in 2100 with a global temperature increase of +4°C?
Will it be submerged in water? And what about in 10,000 years’ time during a potential ice age?
Or even 100,000 years’ time, will it have been reduced to dust? What risks will the house have to face, and what will remain of it in the end?
The images in the series are inspired both by contemporary science and by personal imaginings and visions of science-fiction futures. They are an attempt to give form to what we struggle to imagine in order to question our relationship with risk and with the future.
BIO
Clement Lambelet explores societal issues related to humans and technology. His work includes photographic, video, websites and sound forms, displayed as installations. Lambelet received his Bachelor of Arts in 2016 at ECAL/University of Art & Design, Lausanne, where he currently works as Artistic Deputy for the Master Photography.
His projects have been exhibited internationally in institutions such as Foam Museum, C/O Berlin, HeK Basel, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Centre de la Photographie in Geneva and Photo Elysée in Lausanne. He was nominated for the Swiss Design Award (2021) and he is one of the Foam Talent 2017 laureats.
Clement Lambelet’s first book, Two donkeys in a war zone, was published by RVB Books in 2017 and was nominated for the Author’s book award at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2018. His second book Happiness is the only true emotion was published by RVB Books in 2019.