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Laurent Fachard

Illumination of the urban space
Light installation — Public space

laurent fachard, mise en lumière urbaine, place de la daurade, 2002

Toulouse, a city of natural lights, also celebrates the urban night and puts on its colours. When night comes, all the streets along the Nuits Blanches route are immersed in a symphony of coloured lights. The aim is to give a poetic vision of the city by night, a polychrome metaphor that celebrates and magnifies the urban specificity of the site through colour.
• A red light, almost disturbing, as you approach the exhibition space. It signals that "something is going to happen".

• A polychrome atmosphere in line with the light of the exhibition venues or the Soirées nomades bathe the sites themselves.

 

For the city dweller and the spectator, this route will constitute a truly sensory and new experience (breaking with the anaesthetic light of the sodiomised night). It will also allow the visitor to quickly find his way between the exhibition and performance venues.