The new configuration of the exhibition spaces, between the two gateways constituted by the Pont de Cabessut and the Pont Valentré, allows for the invention of a new night-time route. Starting at the Moulin Saint-James in the medieval part, it continues in a straight line to the Docks, crossing the most contemporary part of the city. Based on these urban contrasts, the lighting of the route this year plays on the opposition of light and shade.

In connection with the EXTRAetORDINARY exhibition, the light sources are staged, diverted from their function or shifted from their usual universe.

To mark the ends of the route, the Pont Valentré and the Moulin Saint James are transformed into luminous beacons and sweep the envy with a powerful beam of light.

The narrow streets around the Place Chapou are the scene of an imaginary battle: high-tech light installations compete with the dark ambience of the city's rich architectural past. Here we come across illuminating balloons floating in the air, there strange giant light cones.

In an adjacent street, the artificial light gives way to photoluminescent surfaces that glow in the dark.

At the corner of a dark street, a monument emerges from the gloom, dressed in thousands of household light bulbs.

In the most modern part of the city, a fluorescent pink colour, the colour of the EXTRAetORDINARY exhibition, leads the visitor to the new Docks space.

An ordinary residential street is covered with a profusion of advertising signs. Creating artificial borders, giant images bar the streets, inviting visitors to cross them. On these screens, which multiply all the way to the Docks, the public discovers archival images from the beginning of the century, of the city and its inhabitants. A way of confronting a different vision of everyday life.

A tunnel haunted by ultraviolet spectra is the last passage before the Docks, a final variation on our modern lights.

Finally, to end the visit on a festive note, everyone can come and drink a glass of Cahors, eat and dance in one of the two guinguettes set up on the banks of the Lot, on Place Champollion and under the Valentré Bridge.