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For more than ten years, Benoit Marini has been conducting research into perception and into how light can take shape in space. His creations play with our gaze to make luminous volumes appear and give them a physical presence before us.

The exhibition opens with Turbulence, a work in which an initially calm and regular state is crossed by increasingly intense disturbances.

It continues with Invisible Imprints, a new research project developed at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. Every building generates phenomena we cannot see: air flows, thermal circulations, sound waves. Benoit Marini explores the possibility of revealing them through light.

A way of no longer looking at architecture only for what it gives us to see, but also for what it produces around itself and what our eyes cannot perceive.

At the boundary between light, movement and perception, Benoit Marini presents Turbulence, a work in which a luminous form sees its balance gradually overturned by a succession of disturbances. The exhibition continues with Invisible Imprints, a research project developed at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine around the invisible phenomena that accompany buildings.

When light takes shape

For more than ten years, Benoit Marini has been conducting research into perception and into how light can take shape in space. His work stems from a particular attention to the phenomena that unsettle our perception, and to the way we observe them and try to understand them.

His creations play with our gaze to make luminous volumes appear and give them a physical presence before us. These forms move and transform before our eyes, sometimes giving the feeling that they come alive.

The viewer is then no longer simply facing an image: they share the same space, can move around the forms, observe them and go towards them.

Turbulence

The exhibition opens with Turbulence, a work in which an initially calm and regular state is crossed by increasingly intense disturbances.

The transformation unfolds slowly before the viewer. Once the first surprise has passed, and perhaps the urge to understand how this volume can appear in space in this way, movement and light invite a more contemplative way of looking.

Invisible Imprints, perceiving architecture differently

In a second phase, the exhibition continues with Invisible Imprints, a research project developed at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine.

A building is not only what we see of it. It acts on the air that passes through it, on thermal circulations, on the propagation of sound. So many phenomena that exist around us yet largely escape our gaze.

Benoit Marini explores the possibility of changing the way we perceive them: a sound wave can become an image, an air flow or a thermal circulation can become a form and a movement of light.

Invisible Imprints thus continues the artist’s research into perception by shifting its terms, turning phenomena that are usually invisible into a sensory experience.

A way of no longer looking at architecture only for what it gives us to see, but also for what it produces around itself and what our eyes cannot perceive.