Chronica
CHRONICA
Barbara Mydlak & Yann Deval
Interactive VR experience | 2026
Collective VR experience | 2026
Chronica is an interactive experience that explores the theme of healing and resilience in the face of illness.
Observing our memories to understand our relationship with illness, zooming in on our fragmented memory to try to reconstruct it, blowing over a difficult moment to make it lighter.
Through the artists’ stories and their own healing journeys, we’ll experience a journey that’s at once introspective, collective and sensory.
Guided through a physical installation made up of a multitude
of paper pages representing the artists’ autobiographical memories, participants will generate their own memories in the form of virtual tactile pages and explore different visual and aural interpretations.
With CHRONICA, artists Barbara Mydlak and Yann Deval invite us to a ritual of shared resilience – bringing millennia-old papermaking techniques into dialogue with contemporary digital augmented realitytechnologies .
Selections
Production
Dark Euphoria
Presentation at Venice Gap-Financing Market 2025 | Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, August 2025
Osaka World Expo – Belgian Pavilion, “No borders, new territories of digital creativity” / KIKK and wake! | Osaka, Japan, May 2025
New Images Festival 2025 – XR Development Marker | Paris, April 2025
Immersity | Angoulême, France, March 2025
Artistic residency XR-Creative | Pôle Image Magelis & École nationale du jeu et des médias interactifs numériques du Cnam, Angoulême, July 2024
Atelier in Beeld #17 | Gand, Belgique, mai 2024
I only count sunny hours | BLANCO Gallery, Gand, Belgique, novembre 2023
Written and directed by Barbara Mydlak & Yann Deval
Inspired by the original work from the Mydlak catalog – M87 by Barbara Mydlak
Music | Yann Deval
Material installations | Works from the Mydlak catalog: M2016, M2017, M2020, M2021, M2022, M2023, M2024 by Barbara Mydlak
Scenography | Barbara Mydlak
Augmented Reality programming and design | Yann Deval
Photo credits:
01 – CHRONICA, interaction with handmade paper. Credit: CHRONICA team
02 – CHRONICA, Augmented Reality experience. Credit: Erik Duinslaeger.
03 – CHRONICA, image taken from the third-person view of the experiment. Credit: CHRONICA team
04 – CHRONICA, microscope test pages for AR, fluorescence DAPI MB 10x / monochrome, photo by Barbara Mydlak, thanks to Dr. Olivier Leroux, Plant Ecology Laboratory, Faculty of Bioscientific Engineering, Ghent University
Paper Studio
Prof. Ewa Latkowska-Zychska
Prof. Magdalena Sobon
The Strzeminski Academy of Art (PL)