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Like a sonar, SOMA maps the traces of our memories. Through their echo, it reflects our emotional history back to us.
The machine invites an intimate dialogue with yourself. The personalized narrative, composed of abstract images and sounds, functions like a cocoon for the meaning that each person projects onto it.
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The active biofeedback during the experience lends the machine a form of virtual empathy for the visitor. The viewer-actor thus becomes a subject on par with the experience.
The subtlety lies in the invisible, the elusive. It's in this in-between, between dream and reality, that SOMA invites us. The machine grants us access to different levels of abstraction, gradually transitioning from the vague to the distinct.
The viewer is invited to confront what these suggestions evoke to them. This creative encounter with their intimacy can take on an infinite number of forms.
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