Immersive light and art at Atelier des Lumières
Masterpieces dissolve into light, colour and movement in an experience closer to theatre than gallery.
An afternoon inside the art.
Atelier des Lumières turns an afternoon of looking at art into something altogether more enveloping. The projections fill the former foundry from floor to ceiling, with music, movement and changing light shaping the experience around you. It is especially suited to winter, when a few hours spent somewhere so atmospheric feel like their own kind of escape.
Art that moves beyond the frame.
Masterworks are projected across the walls, floors and vast industrial surfaces, allowing paintings to appear at a scale impossible in a conventional gallery. Colour moves through the space, details emerge and disappear, and familiar works take on a different quality as part of the larger composition.
A 19th-century ironworks, reimagined.
The space was once the Fonderie Plichon, a 19th-century iron foundry in eastern Paris, and still carries traces of that former life, original pillars, a drying tower and a water tank all remain. Since its conversion in 2018, around 140 projectors have transformed roughly 3,300 square metres of surface, with walls rising to around ten metres.
Find your place, then look up.
There is no fixed route through the experience, and no need to keep moving from one projection to the next. Find a spot on the floor, sit back and let the work unfold around you. With colour moving across the walls and the audience scattered throughout the space, the atmosphere becomes as much part of the experience as the art itself.
