CRYSTAL CLOUD | Façade Projection / Fête des Lumières 2016

For the first time, the festival route was expanded to include this architectural gem by Coop Himmelb(l)au. The architecture is chracterized by striking contrasts: chrystal and cloud, air and solid, facts and dreams. The site-specific audivisual staging picks up these superpositions and translates them into a dynamically shifting virtual guise. With mathematical precision, the sharp edges are traced, transformed and re-established. In contrast, a poetic and associative stream of images represents the museums conceptual focus: The manifold aspects of human existence, of our nature and culture, our dreams, fears and hopes. The divergent aesthetic layers merge into a mesmerizing interplay of the bold architecture and their ephemeral virtual counterpart. Located right on the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, the installation forms a strong unit with the scenery and offers different experiences depending ont the viewer’s standpoint.

Premiere: December 8th, 2016 at Fête des Lumières, Lyon