Matiere Noire is a Paris-based creative studio leading new approaches to spacial design. Built on a network of parallel disciplines, our operation cultivates ambivalence, using observational methods to ground its intuitive impulses. Matière Noire is driven by an appetite for the undefined, the hypothetical, the intangible. Its process celebrates unexpected derivations, developing them into bespoke applications of cross-cultural collaboration.
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Spatial design studio
Light design
Scenography
Building on the optical détournements of Pistolletto’s practice, the scenography and light design of his performance at Bourse de Commerce is a contained expansion of his use of reflection. In Metrocubo d’Infinito, six square mirrors are twined inward, forming a cube. The infinite mirror at the center of the auditorium awaits the artist’s activation under the dramatic scrutiny of a white spotlight that carves geometric shadows on the concrete platform. The habitually transparent background of the stage is hidden by a mirror wall that echoes the artist’s signature medium and integrates the audience in the performance in an unsettling game of refraction.