Aurae

2025

14x8x5m

Automated lights, haze machines, ultra-directional speakers, loud speakers, computer.

Nicolas Guichard & Béatrice Lartigue - Lab212

The term ‘aura’ evokes an immaterial atmosphere that envelops or seems to envelop certain beings.

Aurae continues work begun in 2020 with Passifolia, a piece whose essence was to sketch lush flora and fauna within an empty space.

How can we use the evocative power of sound to materialise a mental landscape? Aurae creates a dialogue between sound and light vibrations in order to expand space, within an experience that is both collective and intimate.

Eight vertical beams of light cut through the space. In an enveloping soundscape, strange fauna create a mysterious and captivating landscape.

Hundreds of sounds of birds, squirrels, frogs... recorded in nature by a naturalist guide, are set to music by Chapelier Fou to materialise a harmonious and constantly evolving nature.

Aurae is a work on the borderline between installation and performance, the landscape revealing itself as time passes... and thus constantly reconfiguring itself.

The work consists of eight modules arranged organically throughout the space. Each module comprises a projector and a directional speaker. A gentle, immersive and evolving melody is played through ambient speakers around the perimeter of the room.

Le Grenier à Sel, Avignon, FRA

Véronique Baton

Chapelier Fou

Mathieu Cabanes

Marc Namblard