Spent the day doing work things but at night we went to this very interesting immersive art experience in an old foundry. The show is called L’Atelier des Lumieres (workshop of lights) and their website is here . Basically they use a large space and project famous artworks onto the walls and floors in coordination with music. The images are not at all static though. They are layered on and off and move around with the music. It is very well choreographed. This show has works by Van Gogh, Japanese art and a piece made just for the show by Thomas Vanz. The Van Gogh and Japanese portions were very good, the Thomas Vanz piece was less effective in my opinion.
It was interesting to move to different vantage points but also to stay still and watch how people (and children) observed and interacted with the work. If you sat on a wall you effectively became part of the show. Children were trying to ‘catch’ the moving images. I will say you could enter or leave at any time and their was very little explanation. The experience would have been enriched for me with a little more context. This was true for most of the things I saw on this trip though. And yes, I had dinner at the same place.
