Selected work 02
Granular Distortion
About the work
Granular Distortion is a body of work built on one generative particle system. It exists as a series of pigment prints and as a live audiovisual performance.
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Pigment prints, Galerie Moto, 2026
Granular Distortion does not depict objects but system states. Maurice Cazzolli works with particles steered by algorithmically simulated physical forces: gravity, current, digital turbulence. The resulting pigment prints do not document natural phenomena. They show how probability assumes form under defined forces.
The image forms through accumulation. What becomes visible is not the individual particle but the collective field it composes with countless others. Where this field densifies, brightness emerges as a direct function of density, not as an external light source. Where it disperses, the black ground reclaims the form.
The system admits no repetition. It produces a principally inexhaustible succession of states, each one unique, most of them without formal relevance. Cazzolli observes this stream and selects from it: the moment of selection is the actual artistic decision.
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Granular Distortion AV, 2024
The audiovisual performance invites the audience into a minimal and fictitious reality, characterised by particles, extremes such as black and white, distorted soundscapes and hard kick drums. The visualisations are audio-reactive and respond to the live music in real time.