Antichambre (2014)

ANTI CHAMBRE is an audiovisual installation and performance for a variable number of two meter long fluorescent tubes replicas. For this project, we were interested in working with unconventional, more tangible projection surfaces. In this case, our ‘screen’ consists of an array of lighting fixtures built by the artists that are dialoguing with, interrupting and masking the projections using, paradoxically, the same medium: light. ANTI CHAMBRE adapts to any space through variable configurations of the tubes and precise video mapping. The visitors are invited to wander among these illuminated geometries.

The high parallel lines of ANTI CHAMBRE remind both the bars of a cage and the bare trunks of trees. Both enclosed spaces – fluorescent tubes being the default lighting fixtures in large corporate buildings – and the unrestricted openness of nature. The projections also illustrate this duality between the natural and the constructed, the organic and the synthetic; it evokes the comfort of a chamber and the coldness of a prison cell, between fluid conglomerates and clean geometric shapes.