D'À Travers

D'À Travers is a game-installation for a single player, yet its experience is meant to be shared—spectators can observe, assist, and interpret, becoming part of the unfolding journey. At its core is an "interactive mirror"—a screen framed like a portrait mirror, with a discreet camera embedded at the top. Players see their own reflection as they interact using a smooth, reflective crystal trackball, guiding a butterfly with fluid, dreamlike motions. The interaction is intuitive, flowing like water, yet what appears simple soon unravels into something far more intricate. But when the glass shatters, reality fractures. Movement is no longer linear—your reflection drifts through displaced shards, appearing where it once was, not where it should be—a world displaced, yet still connected. Space bends, memory lingers, and what was whole is now fragmented beyond repair. This shattered mirror is more than a mechanic—it is a metaphor, a reflection of a personal challenge faced by the artist. The chosen music, woven from Flutter By, Butterfly by the Kenny Wheeler Quintet, is not just thematically linked to transformation, reflection and fragility; it also marks the artist’s birth year. The music, once whole, is now broken—just like the world. Each note ripples like reflections in shattered glass, a melody of lost and fractured selves. As you gather the pieces of your shadow, you rebuild not just the world, but the song itself—restoring the echoes of what once was.

Designed, built and developed by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos & Olivier Drouet