L’édification de la lumière

Two and a half centuries after the end of the Middle Ages, the age of Enlightenment began this transition from obscurantism to an era of knowledge. But what about now? Our knowledge of light, the one that overwhelms urban nights and illuminates today’s castles? What discourse can we draw from the illumination of financial sites and office towers? Prestige or relics to become? Through a minimalist plastics research that makes the structure of the buildings disappear, I wish to reveal this construction of light as a subject. A subject not illuminated, but illuminating. A subject producing a discourse of which we do not always realize the significance and which disappears behind the obviousness of the subject : the buildings illuminate the cities at night. However, beyond this comforting aspect of the light, the way in which the luminous flow organizes itself through multiple interspersed sources, without touching each other, produces a visual code of mystery, a language sometimes more disturbing than comforting, because it isinducing separation and imposing hierarchy. This layering of lines and luminous points, is it a metaphor of the pixelation of the social? What remains hidden behind this debauchery of lumens in the absence of the human?