The duo of artists called WASHMACHINE and the designer Céline Shen have collaborated on the Nebula project, a three-panel collection of works combining a universe of garment sculptures formed of atmospheric layers.

From the transforming mechanics of an aura that is at times restrained and condensed, at other times enveloping, fluctuating or evaporating, gases escaping into space forms an atmospheric density retranscribed in augmented reality.

This triptych of gas giants, composed of interstellar dust on invisible bodies, forms fields of stellar radiation.

The Nebula project was born of a quest to experiment with form and matter, voluptuousness and combustion.

Born of a collaboration between tangible and digital creation, it formalizes the blending of contradictions. Inert forms seem to awaken, imposing themselves on us. Supple by nature, they improvise themselves into moving rigidity, where smoke can flow like a vaporous river, a floating being, master of the elements.

Between the real and the imaginary, they navigate between the familiarity of earthly elements and the impossibility of the images they compose. Together, they reveal an ethereal atmosphere, where gravity seems disrupted, where the astral and reality can blend.

Following a joint reflection on the blending of garments and elements, an interstellar mist emerged as the ideal partner for our fabrics, metamorphosing to give life to our creations.

This triptych unveils a chemical concoction creating atmospheres embodying the representation of three eras: the imaginary of an original world in formation whose vapours are tinged with the glow of the rainbow, a modern age where the element of metal predominates, and the era of plastic, the standard emblem of advanced industrial societies.