Morris Museum presents “Perennial Land - The Data Forest”, an experiential installation by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger that combines the beauty of various forest environments with the importance of data-driven insights into a human’s impact on nature. Stepping into a space transformed into a multi-climate forest, tech and tools about resources and equity are seamlessly integrated into the environment like trees. We want to push aside the modern habit of thinking of nature–culture divide, decolonize technology and highlight the ways landscape contributes to social, political and psychic ideas of space. The vulnerability of the environment is directly related to that of certain communities.
ON VIEW at MORRIS MUSEUM, a Smithsonian Affiliate, Morristown, NJ
November 7, 2025 - April 5, 2026
Creation & Direction: LAIA CABRERA & ISABELLE DUVERGER
Original Music: NANA SIMOPOULOS
Morris Museum: 6 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ
Wednesday to Sunday 11 AM - 5 PM
Get Tickets: morrismuseum.org / More Infos: laiacabreraco.com/perennialland
Friday, November 14, 2025
Perennial Land - The Data Forest at Morris Museum - A Smilthsonian Affiliate until April 2026
Friday, October 4, 2024
Shifting Gaze - Rooted: An installation about Choice, Desire and Memory

Shifting Gaze - Rooted: An installation about Choice, Desire and Memory
LAIA CABRERA + ISABELLE DUVERGER with music by ERICA GLYN
This installation is site-specific. It combines video art, sound, animation and painting, and includes historical artifacts belonging to the collection of the Apple Tree House.
The installation includes a video art piece directed by Laia Cabrera which has been created over the years about choice, memory, and desire: a multiple portrait of women, and two paintings by Isabelle Duverger representing the two feelings of being connected and uprooted, which relate to the theme of the group exhibition: “Ward Mount: A Mother of Many Daughters.”
This group exhibition, curated by Lucy Rovetto, also includes works from exceptional women artists Nicole Demaio, Jaz Graf, Katelyn Halpern, Joanna Bellamy Jordan, Pat Lay, Tina Maneca, Jennifer Roberts, and Pauline Ward Mount.
Apple Tree House - Museum of Jersey City History October 1-20, 2024
Opening: Tuesday October 1, 2024, 1-5PM
Tuesday and every other Saturday and Sunday, 1-5pm
JCAST 2024: October 4-6, 2024 - Friday-Saturday: 5-9pm and Sunday: 5-7pm
"Shifting Gaze” Video Art, Film for cinematic presentation, 4K color, 20 min.
Shifting Gaze is a film-art-music installation about choice, desire and memory conceived and directed by Laia Cabrera (filmmaker and video artist) and created in collaboration with Erica Glyn (music, composer and singer) and Isabelle Duverger (animations). Shifting Gaze is a film about identity, about making choices, a memory in act. Drawing from the body, faces, urban patterns, nature and remains of activity, the piece explores a notion of choice, linked to desire and memory - choice being the present, memory representing the past and desire, the drive for a future. Underneath these mirrored imageries lie many stories about limits, freedom and self-perception.
“Rooted #1" and "Rooted #2" Paintings, Acrylic and Ink on Canvas, 14 x 14 in.
This diptych is named "Rooted - Bodies of Nature". They are gold and black paintings on canvas, portraying the desire of belonging by nature, freedom and limits.
The top panel (#1) is the experience of belonging, and the desire to leave that precious origin to become something else, while the bottom panel (#2) is disconnected, reaching out, expanding, to rejoin with that other who will give them a foundation. This journey, from one canvas to the other, is also a personal one, a conflict between the comfort of the origin, the connection to the past, and the desire to break apart, leave everything and start anew, finding a place of my own.

Friday, August 16, 2024
Perennial Land - The Data Forest, Hall of Fame Gallery, CUNY-BCC & Treehouse NDSM
Immersive Video and Sound Installation conceived and Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Original music composition by Nana Simopoulos
Cinematography, Editing and Visual Effects by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Additional Visual Effects by Caryn Heilman - Spacial Sound Design by Ander Agudo
"Perennial Land" is an experiential installation focused on Climate Justice that immerses us into the beauty of Earth's landscapes and awakens us to the importance of data-driven insights into our impact on nature.
Perennial Land - The Data Forest is an experiential installation that combines the beauty of various forest environments with the importance of data-driven insights into a human's impact on nature. Stepping into a space transformed into a multi-climate forest, tech and tools about resources and equity are seamlessly integrated into the environment like trees. We want to push aside the modern habit of thinking of nature–culture divide, decolonize technology and highlight the ways landscape contributes to social, political and psychic ideas of space. The vulnerability of the environment is directly related to that of certain communities. Nature does not need us. We need nature.
Perennial Land - The Data Forest is part of the Care and Climate Justice exhibitions series at Sarah Lawrence College and Bronx Community College with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
"Gathering is an ethic at the heart of Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger’s looped video installation, Perennial Land: The Data Forest (2024), which invites its audiences into a restful, contemplative, and immersive space, surrounded on three sides by lush images of Earth’s forest environments. These images are interspersed with climate data and scenes of human-planetary relations gone awry, the visual grammar of the Anthropocene. Cabrera and Duverger specialize in public, interactive video works that break down the “uni-directionality” of artistic communication, so that audience members are positioned more as creative collaborators than an inert “audience.”18 Even as Perennial Land serves harsh reminders of anthropogenic destruction, it also summons hope for other ways of being. Over-stating human destruction can reinforce an ideological binary of nature/culture and obscure long histories of reciprocal care on this planet; Perennial Land, on the contrary, both hails and builds a community invested in responsible co-existence." — Introduction: Care and Climate Justice by Sarah Hamill and Izzy Lockhart, Care and Climage Justice Catalogue, 2024
Care and Climate Justice is a series of exhibitions that take place at Sarah Lawrence College and Bronx Community College in winter and spring 2024. The exhibitions are funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, which supports the Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment (SLICE). Against the urgency and presentism suggested by “climate crisis,” these exhibitions turn to responses that might be considered careful and slow, and that shed light on the long histories of environmental devastation on this continent shaped by settler colonialism and racial capitalism. As both an ethic and aesthetic, care takes the form of grief and remembrance, of attention and refusal, of adaptation and kinship, and of expansive imagination and storytelling in anticipation and prefiguration of other futures.
Hall of Fame Art Gallery at Bronx Community College
Curated by Patricia Cazorla
2155 University Avenue, Bronx, New York 10453
March 21, 2024 - May 16, 2024
March 26: Care and Climate Justice Artists’ Roundtable - Heimbold Visual Arts Center
May 2: Perennial Land - Artist Talk - Hall of Fame Gallery, Bliss Hall, CUNY-BCC
Treehouse NDSM Art Park II: Voice of Nature
TT. Neveritaweb 57, 1033 WB Amsterdam, the Nederlands
September 12 - October 6, 2024 - Thursday to Sunday, 13h - 18h
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Dream-e-scape at the Film Criticism Conference, Riyadh, KSA
Film Criticism Conference - "Beyond the Frame" - Nov 8-15, 2023 - The Cultural Palace, DQ, Riyadh, KSA
Artist Talk: From Moving Images to Immersive Cinema - November 10, 2023 - 7:30pm - The Cultural Palace, DQ, Riyadh, KSA
Conceived and Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Interactive Design by Aniol Saurina Masó and Jianhao Ma
Original music composition by Nana Simopoulos
Cinematography and Editing by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
"Dream-e-scape" is an interactive projection art installation about lucid dreams, created by filmmaker Laia Cabrera and multimedia artist Isabelle Duverger, in collaboration with interactive designer Aniol Saurina Masó and Jianhao Ma, and composer and instrumentalist Nana Simopoulos.
The piece is an immersive and interactive 360º installation about the mind and the search for awareness in which the public experiences a sensory voyage that captures the surreal nature of dreams, where the line is blurred between the physical and the digital world, between the real and the imaginary.
“Dream-e-scape” is based on the state of sleep, an imaginary journey one can experience with the eyes wide open. The piece explores the concept of lucid dreaming, the sleep state in which we become aware we are dreaming and have the ability to control the dream and gain agency over our thoughts and desires. We are testing reality: Are we awake?
We wanted to play with the surreal nature of dreams and explore concepts and ideas related to our notion of a digital self in a collective environment. Being awake, conscious… agency. The installation uses the language of escape rooms to explore the dreamworld, opening doors to mirrored landscapes, waterfalls, a Daliesque world or hidden pathways, creating connection between allegories of tales, micro and macro, nature, body, mind and universe, all connected by chance and sometimes astonishing clarity. Dreams are the starting point of the imagination. The original score takes you to interactive soundscapes created specifically for the piece.
Using cutting-edge multimedia technology to produce creative environments, through mapping, infinite space, augmented reality, interactivity, video art, music and animation, the audience is invited to actively participate as actors and not just as mere spectators. The video installation art becomes a theatrical stage where things appear, move across, and then disappear, where awareness becomes attention and action, and your brain fantasizes your conscious reality. Original music uses textures, pads, pulses and drum rhythms to move the audience through the space and at times influence the music by their physical movement.
Conceived as a seamless projection mapping design with full gesture responsive interactivity, “Dream-e-escape” invites the audience to actively enter the heart of the piece creating and choosing dreamlands that unfold across a series of immersive interactive scenarios, capturing the surreal nature of dreams and giving the audience agency. Dream-e-scape plays as a fictional dimension, whose terrain of forests, cities, galaxies, mountains, and an underworld can be visited only through a process of thinking creatively, Lucid dreaming.




OTHER VENUES
Flutter Art Gallery - 2022-2023 - Los Angeles
Microwave Media Arts Festival - Oct 28, 2022 - Nov 6, 2022 - Hong Kong City Hall
AWARDS: #Hybrid Vision - Panasonic Digital Art Competition 2022 - Interactive Digital Art Nominee
Friday, October 6, 2023
QUALIA - You Matter to Me, 2023
Music and Sound design by Nana Simopoulos and Erica Glyn | Performing artist: Catherine Correa
through consciousness, awareness, and agency.
Presented at:
as part of JCAST 2023 and Prelude Festival 2023 - Segal Center CUNY
October 13 6-9pm, the 14th & 15th 12-6pm

“Qualia” is a sensory voyage where the line is blurred between the physical and the digital world, between the real and the imaginary. The gaze is a visual poem, gravitational Qualia: anxiety shaped into Surrealism, mythology, a nightmare turned fantasy, spontaneous solidarity, feelings of solitude, suspension, an embrace, the beginning of a smile, a hand falling and rising again, time and the fates.
Conceived as an immersive projection mapping design using cinematographic language and interactive dramaturgy, “Qualia” explores concepts of mental states, symbolism, and hope, creating a story that unfolds across a series of immersive scenarios drawing from the body, faces, urban patterns, nature and remains of activity. Underneath these mirrored imageries lie many stories about limits, freedom and self-perception.
An ordinary tableau becomes a dreamscape, the brain is an airport, a train rail. The mind is a magician, the body is the self, giving audience an alternative experience where they are no longer passive spectators and actively enter the very heart of the piece where ‘universal time’ continues to exist in parallel with an inner perception of time — a back door — intimately associated with our sense of personal identity and unshakable condition that the future is still open to our chosen actions.
The brain is an alchemist where memories are the bedrock of consciousness.
The piece uses choreographic language, fragmentation, bioart, color, motion, music, drama, humor, light and darkness to confound expectations, dream-like scenes and symbolic images, flattening space through animation and abstraction, or heightening the illusion of three dimensions.
The immersive experience - environmental video sculpture - is designed as a large wall with white canvases spread across, seemingly in random positions creating video spaces. Using the concept of ideasthesia, a bridge that metaphorically links rational abstractions, we open a dialogue between the different film streams - within the canvases and throughout the wall - with an original music score and sound design, extending the installation in time and space.
With the support of the Individual Artist Fellowship program provided by the Jersey City Arts Council and the Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund, and the Jersey City Theater Center. Produced by Laia Cabrera & Co.

Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Projection Design and Mapping for Lachi's "Lift Me Up" music video
"Lift Me Up" is a tribute to late disability rights activist Judy Heumann, aimed at spotlighting
high-quality accessible art and Disability within a pop culture narrative.
Lachi: RAMPD Records: www.rampd.org
Executive Producer: Lachi Music LLC www.lachimusic.com
Music Production: Lachi and Michael Herrick
Mixing/Mastering: The Pear Entertainment
Video Directors: Catriona Rubenis-Stevens and Day Al-Mohamed
Co Stars: Nell Russell, Otis Jones and Amber Galloway, Ali Stroker
Producers: Arthur Gwynne, Catriona Rubenis-Stevens, Lachi Music
Music
Performers: Gaelynn Lea, James Ian, Lachi Music
ASL Performers: Amber Galloway, Aurnell Russell, Otis Jones
Audio Description Narrator: Ali Stroker
Director of Photography: Caroline Mariko Stucky
1st Assistant Camera: Eric Richardson
Editor: Jake Primmerman
Director of Artistic ASL: Amber Galloway
Projection Design: Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co.)
Production Designer: JD Caesar
Special thanks to: RAMPD, Gymnopedie, Quad Studios
Audio Descriptions Sponsored by Google, maker of Lookout
ASL Sponsored by Amber G Productions
Sponsored by Google, maker of Live Caption and Live Transcribe
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Projection Design and Artwork for "Allerleirauh, The Musical" by Angela Masi and by Dillon Feldman, 2023
Directed by Catriona Stevens
Projection design and artwork by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Light design by Matt Steinberg - Choreography by Michael Scannelli
Cast: Adam Barr, Camber Carpenter, Paul Gary, Jeffrey Grover, Zoila N. Pinto, Sean Quigley, Yasmin Ranz-Lind, Chase Wolfe, Claire E. Dempsey, Shari Gill, Veronica Depauli, Sofia Ales
Band: Natasha Gonzalez music direction; Blair Hamrick, Katya Barmotina, Alice Levine, Vince Novellino, Dave D’aranjo, Andy Buslovich, Emma Reinhart, Steve Plesnarski
March 10-11, 2023 - Alvin Ailey Dance Theater - 405 W 55th St, New York, NY
Friday, November 11, 2022
Welcome to Sloomooverse - Web-AR Interactive Experience
Created by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Development by Marcos Boero - Devenred
3D by Jordan Gantier and Lucas Ordoñez
Sloomoo Institute, 475 Broadway, SoHo, New York, NY 10013, Starting September 22, 2022
November 2022 in Chicago, Atlanta, December 2023 in Houston and September 2024 in Los Angeles.
Sloomooverse is an interactive web-AR experience. Sloomoo is entering your real world environment (SLAM), and spreading mini-sloomoo in their path. When detecting a sloomooverse (image targets), Sloomoo enters a 3D world which is VR or AR based, where they can interact in different way, swimming their way through an underwater mysterious world of treasures, jumping on the moon surrounded by a magical sky and planets, become an 8bit version of themselves, and poping on tap, in a very 80s videogamish way, enter a psychedelic world where giant mushrooms grow and Sloomoo dances under a kaleidoscopic sky and floor, or enjoys a rain of french fries.
The web-AR contains therefore six experiences in one, and because it is a web-Based AR experience, people don't need to download anything to start experiencing it.
As an added feature, the experience can be photographed or recorded.
SLIMEY MIRROR - Sloomoo Institute - New York, Chicago, Atlanta
Created by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Interactive Design by Jianhao Ma and Aniol Saurina Masó
3D Design by Lucas Ordoñez
Music by Pei Pei Music
Sloomoo Institute, 475 Broadway, SoHo, New York, NY 10013, Starting September 22, 2022
Opening November 19, 2022 in Chicago and Atlanta
Opening December 7, 2023 in Houston
Opening September 7, 2024 in Los Angeles
When entering, the interactivity allows for people to see their self as an avatar of slime, responding to one's movement in a mirrored manner, and at the same time responding to the laws of motion of slime. The environment is a cave also made of slime, and it can interact with people by spilling slime of different textures. When prompted by a ball of slime, people can also throw slime at the mirror and at one another.
The experience of reflecting oneself onto a mirror is always a learning experience, here we want people to free themselves from their self-reflection and discover the possibilities of being in a slime body.
The installation works with a full body tracking sensor, and therefor allows to move freely in the space without having to wear any technology. We are looking to create an experience in which people can instinctively interact, with technology invisible.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Dream-e-scape at Microwave Media Art Festival, Hong Kong
Flutter Experience Art Gallery, 217 S La Brea, Los Angeles, CA - 2022-2023
Dream-e-scape at Microwave Media Arts Festival - Oct 28, 2022 - Nov 6, 2022 - Hong Kong City Hall
#Hybrid Vision - Panasonic Digital Art Competition 2022 - Interactive Digital Art Nominee
"Dream-e-scape" is an interactive projection art installation about lucid dreams, created by filmmaker Laia Cabrera and multimedia artist Isabelle Duverger, in collaboration with interactive designer Aniol Saurina Masó and composer and instrumentalist Nana Simopoulos.
The piece is an immersive and interactive 360º installation about the mind and the search for awareness in which the public experiences a sensory voyage that captures the surreal nature of dreams, where the line is blurred between the physical and the digital world, between the real and the imaginary.
“Dream-e-scape” is based on the state of sleep, an imaginary journey one can experience with the eyes wide open. The piece explores the concept of Lucid Dream, the state in which we are asleep and become aware we are dreaming, and the ability we have to control the dreams, the agency we have over our thoughts and desires. We are testing reality, are we awake?
Conceived and Directed by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Interactive Design by Aniol Saurina Masó
Original music composition by Nana Simopoulos
Cinematography and Editing by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Close-Up / Primer Pla immersive video and sound installation
Original music by Nana Simopoulos and Enrique Granados
Cinematography and Editing by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
"In a world in which one is tempted to forget or ignore too much, the reconquest of our collective past should be among our first projects for our future.” Umberto Eco
Close-Up/Primer Pla: An Immersive Cinematic Art Installation is a poem to Catalan landscape and architecture, a visual tone poem that uncovers new parallels between identifiable motifs of the land and the built environment, between nature and art. The tale it weaves navigates between gentle familiar territory and sudden, revelatory estrangement, spanning both distant memory and nostalgia for what is yet to come.
Conceived as a visual narrative memoir, looking back and looking forward, a filmic poem of future nostalgia and selective memory. Capturing the instant, going back to the origin, a memory in act. The piece departs from three major themes for the visual storytelling: Place + People + Values.
Unveiling a sensorial “viatge” as a “spiral”, we created an oneiric journey merging and juxtaposing the essence of these thematic concepts as a triptych video installation. With a cinematic style, using mathematic patterns in nature like spiral, fractals, voronoi, the symbolic tradition of Castells, the textures and shapes of modern architectural landscapes of Catalunya; a visual storytelling materializing thoughts, allegories, scenic metaphors and imaginary skylines. Our focus was also on the rituals of togetherness and solidarity, images of embrace and openness of a community.
The gaze is on the details, the poetry, the beauty of the senses and the longing for an inclusive and sustainable future. A path forward – unveiled through collective traditions and multiculturalism.
Presented at:
Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the United States, Washington DC, September 14, 2021
White Space Gallery Chelsea - New York, NY - November 15-16, 2021
Coral Gables Museum, Miamia, FL - November 17, 2021
Sant Jordi USA festival - Jersey City Theater Center, NJ - April 21-24, 2022
The Dumbo Loft - Brooklyn, NY - September 20, 2022
Commissioned by the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the United States. Presented with the support of Office of Turism of Catalonia and Prodeca Produced by Laia Cabrera & Co.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Dream-e-scape: An eye-opening journey into the sleep state - Los Angeles, 2022-2023
IMMERSIVE INTERACTIVE FILM AND SOUND INSTALLATION
FLUTTER EXPERIENTIAL GALLERY - 217 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Conceived and Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Interactive Design by Aniol Saurina Masó
Original music composition by Nana Simopoulos
Cinematography and Editing by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
View on Website: laiacabreraco.com/dream-e-scape
"Dream-e-scape" is an interactive projection art installation about lucid dreams, created by filmmaker Laia Cabrera and multimedia artist Isabelle Duverger, in collaboration with interactive designer Aniol Saurina Masó and composer and instrumentalist Nana Simopoulos.
The piece is an immersive and interactive 360º installation about the mind and the search for awareness in which the public experiences a sensory voyage that captures the surreal nature of dreams, where the line is blurred between the physical and the digital world, between the real and the imaginary.
“Dream-e-scape” is based on the state of sleep, an imaginary journey one can experience with the eyes wide open. The piece explores the concept of Lucid Dream, the state in which we are asleep and become aware we are dreaming, and the ability we have to control the dreams, the agency we have over our thoughts and desires. We are testing reality, are we awake?
We wanted to play with the surreal nature of dreams and explore concepts and ideas related to our notion of a digital self in a collective environment. Being awake, conscious… agency. The installation uses the language of escape rooms to explore the dreamworld, opening doors to mirrored landscapes, waterfalls, a Daliesque world or hidden pathways, creating connection between allegories of tales, micro and macro, nature, body, mind and universe, all connected by chance and sometimes astonishing clarity. Dreams are the starting point of the imagination. The original score takes you to interactive soundscapes created specifically for the piece.
Using cutting-edge multimedia technology to produce creative environments, through mapping, infinite space, augmented reality, interactivity, video art, music and animation, the audience is invited to actively participate as actors and not just as mere spectators. The video installation art becomes a theatrical stage where things appear, move across, and then disappear, where awareness becomes attention and action, and your brain fantasizes your conscious reality. Original music uses textures, pads, pulses and drum rhythms to move the audience through the space and at times influence the music by their physical movement.
Conceived as a seamless projection mapping design with full gesture responsive interactivity, “Dream-e-escape” invites the audience to actively enter the heart of the piece creating and choosing dreamlands that unfold across a series of immersive interactive scenarios, capturing the surreal nature of dreams and giving the audience agency.
Bio:
Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co.) are award-winning video artists searching for innovative ways of using the space and visual imaginary as a tool for narrative storytelling and audience connection, driven by both scenographic and dramaturgical aspects and creating immersive content experiences in contemporary artwork. They work in the field of interactive video art installations, creating a wide range of artworks presented worldwide in leading venues, art galleries and festivals. For this piece, they collaborated with interactive designer Aniol Saurina-Masó and composer Nana Simopoulos.
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