The massive, and in many ways Albi-esque balanced simplicity of the high school extension buildings led me to seek homogeneity with the architects’ vision. The idea of ​​a ceiling of light, stemming from the site’s selection, made the need for chromatic restraint (in addition to energy-efficient considerations) immediately apparent.

The resulting project consists of suspending a fragment of night (in the broadest sense) beneath a daytime sky, since this artwork, located within a high school, is only visible during the day (and only briefly at night in winter). It invites us to look up, not at the stars, but at a pyrotechnic display of fireflies recreated by the generative (semi-random) programming of points of light, which slowly appear and disappear beneath the footbridge. It evokes Pasolini and the luminous, poetic power of life, but also its disappearance, as fireflies have been endangered since the 1960s due to light and chemical pollution. Against the black screen of our future sleepless nights, the work thus operates through various paradigm shifts.