Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil

Since the early 1990s, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil has been reflecting on the themes of disappearance and the security obsessions of our time. Through photographs, videos and installations, the artist shows how, although we live in a democracy, our freedom is relative because it is "monitored". More broadly, he criticizes the unique and reductive viewpoint offered by current communication technologies. During the 2012 edition of the festival, Renaud Auguste Dormeuil presented an exhibition at the Château d'Eau entitled Voyager dans l'espace et le temps (Travelling in space and time), which brought together twelve photographs reconstituting the celestial vault on the eve of bombings that have remained famous throughout history.

On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of le Printemps de septembre, he continues this journey through time, this time turning it towards the future. He reactivates one of the emblematic pieces of his work: the performance I Will Keep A Light Burning, an installation of a thousand candles reproducing the starry sky as it will be visible in a hundred years. Lit over the course of the evening, these candles gradually create a constellation of the future, in an immense circle materialising the invisible.