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The Bump it! is a procedure developed and applied recurrently in a series of artworks by Bertrand Planes. An object or a group of objects is uniformly painted white, and a video-projection then re-colors, re-textures the surfaces. The action directly evokes cybernated modes of thinking and practice in which the constitution of a digital object is de facto realized in two steps : a neutral volume is created whose surfaces are then dressed.At the New Galerie, the object is attributed its original surface in a projected loop that passes from pure white to a textured verisimilitude via a diffused cross-fade. The absolute distinction of surface/volume, so evident on a computer screen, takes place in 鈥渞eal space.鈥�

Applying the Bump it! allows digital methods to decompose the properties of an object, and to join and modernize the 鈥渃lassical鈥� thought process of the perception of its innate properties ; but the Bump it! is also a surface of projection able to undergo infinite variations. The possibility to customize the real in one click is finally available.

In parallel to its presentation in exhibitions, the Bump it! has been applied by Bertrand planes in a variety of different contexts, for example, in transforming the large organ of a church into a peak-meter or in redressing the exterior of a Citro毛n at a car show. The application of the Bump it! in the consumerist context evokes a supplementary step in the process of dematerialization and personalization.

The use, in the most basic sense of the term, that Bertrand Planes makes of these processes in different contexts and milieus, furnishes a secondary reading of his work鈥攁 subtitle. The variety of planes of application mirrors the multifarious practices on which the work is based, and adds the perspective of the infographist to that of the artist with regards to the monochrome. In mixing ways of doing things that are usually exclusive, Bertrand Planes creates an indeterminate space in which new solutions are possible.