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- 23 x 30.5 cm
- 224 pages
- 300 color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8382-1
- Text in French only
Using light where others use earth or paint, Kersalé chooses the night, the preferred location of the sensitive, as a field of experimentation. He has thus developed hundreds of projects: a luminous encephalogram of the ocean, and diversions into high-tech objects, works of art or mythical buildings. Just as Helmut Jahn placed the lights on the Sony Center in Berlin and the airports in Bangkok and Chicago, Jean Nouvel designed the red pulsations of the glass roof of the Lyon Opera, the lighting of the Quai Branly museum in Paris, and the Agbar tower in Barcelona. Rising against the sodium illumination which disfigures monuments, Kersalé creates in Nantes, in Rennes, in the port installations of Saint-Nazaire, constructing luminous fictions, narrative work on the soul and memory of cities. To do this, he invents lighting concepts, light objects like light grafts, which play on sweeping highlights, on apparitions; poetic projects with multiple references, in which his spirit of freedom and provocation is always perceptible.