Washmachine

France

WASHMACHINE is an artist duo composed of Bastien Testucci and Lucie Ellison. Both passionate about new technologies and curious about their use in the artistic field, they combined their skills to create works that blend generative art, drawing, technology, and surreal atmospheres. They develop an aesthetic nourished by retrofuturist and cyberpunk imaginaries, where fascination for technique meets speculative visions of the future. Their universe is inspired by the invisible and the immaterial, by everything that escapes our direct perception yet shapes our world — data, flows, structures. Their artistic research seeks to make perceptible what by nature eludes the eye: the vibration of a wave, the trace of a gesture, or the passage of time. Through generative processes and algorithmic simulations, WASHMACHINE transform these phenomena into living abstract landscapes. Their works, at the crossroads between the scientific and the poetic, invite us to perceive color as resonance, gesture as writing, and technology as an organic matter in constant metamorphosis.

Their work has been exhibited in Paris, notably at Galerie Shen and within La Cyber Flânerie, in Milan during Packaging Première, and more recently at Première Vision 2025.


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Nebula Present

The artist duo WASHMACHINE and designer Céline Shen collaborated on NEBULA, a collection of three panels blending a universe of textile sculptures that evoke atmospheric strata.

The NEBULA project was born from a quest to experiment with form and material, sensuality and combustion. This triptych reveals a visual alchemy illustrating three distinct eras: the imaginary of an original world in formation, where vapors shimmer with rainbow reflections; a modern age dominated by metallic elements; and finally, the age of plastic — an emblematic symbol of advanced industrial societies.

With a natural suppleness, these works improvise a shifting rigidity, where smoke flows like a vaporous river, becoming a floating entity, a mistress of the elements. Between reality and imagination, they navigate between the familiarity of earthly elements and the impossibility of the images they compose. Together, they unveil an ethereal atmosphere where gravity seems disrupted, and the astral and the real merge into a single vision.

Presented as three life-size prints, the installation comes to life through augmented reality: when filmed, the images open and animate, revealing a video that extends their dreamlike and ever-changing dimension.

technique

3d

format

portrait

duration

00:58

year

2023

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