thiruvananthapuram as part of digital november an international festival of digital cultures by the entire network of alliance francaise in india french visual artist pierre jean giloux screened his film installation biomimetics at college of architecture cat on friday the film is inspired by the urban forms of different cities in india and the coexistence with nature as part of the indian way of living the exhibition consists of a video installation that takes the form of a multiscreen device i had the opportunity to travel around different cities like chennai madurai ahmedabad kochi trivandrum and bangalore to shoot videos photographs and record the daily sounds here the idea is to recreate one city with the fragments of every place i travelled using 2d and 3d tools says gilouxgiloux who used to do sketches as a child started out his career as a sculptor he pursued it further at the fine arts college in lyon in paris and other institutions abroad the artist now dedicates his time to set up immersive installations as he believes that the relationship of the spectator with the space around is very important the audience should feel that they are in the film i like to recreate the same scale of elements as seen in the real world so that people feel the infinitesimal state of humans with respect to the world around us he explains the artist conceived the project called invisible cities during his residency at the villa kujoyama in kyoto in 2015 this was a video tetralogy painting portraits of several japanese cities revisiting the latest modern utopia of the metabolist movement biomimetics is essentially an artists view on how nature can help architecture urbanism and overall humankind with our problems like pollution and climate change it involves getting inspired by nature to create urban forms thus leading to a more sustainable lifestyle it is also something i liked best about india the coexistence of flora and fauna with the city life adds gilouxthis artwork is originally composed of four films and is a work under progress giloux will visit ahmedabad and gujarat in the near future to complete this project the exhibition at cat was followed by a discussion with the audience