Paris-based designer- illustrator Julie Stephen Chheng has staged the ‘Fortune Teller’ expo at the Alliance Francaise in Puducherry. | Photo Credit: M. Dinesh Varma
Folklore and philosophy meet new age technology in an encounter with the otherworld in an immersive exhibition by Julie Stephen Chheng, Paris-based designer, illustrator and author, at the Alliance Francaise.
‘Fortune Teller’ is an interactive Augmented Reality installation that uses a mobile application (downloadable via QR-code) to put the viewer face-to-face with nature spirits. The encounter with these spirits from the otherworld also transmit wisdom and philosophical nuggets that serve as real-life navigation tips or cautionary cues.
Julie Stephen Chheng is a graduate from the ‘Arts Décoratifs de Paris’ school and engages in projects in the field of publishing and visual arts that blend state-of-the-art technology and paper. Working out of Volumique Studio in Paris, she is the author of several books and applications, including ‘Poems in Pieces’, ‘The Adventures of a Village’ and ‘The Postal Train’.
The artist blends art, mystery, myth and technology that blurs the line between the seen and the unseen.
