Matière 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
A contemplation on 40 years of creation and collaboration, the Fondation Cartier introduces its new Palais-Royal address through an evolutive display of blended artistry. Beyond preservation and patronage, the Fondation Cartier imagines the museum as a layered experience, a crossroads of eclectic practices. Converting Jean Nouvel’s unfinished building into a museum in-progress, the Foundation enlists Matière Noire for the scenography and lighting of the exhibition’s installations. Plays on transparency, scale, motion and sound express the emotional mosaic of its cross-cultural collection. Conceived in collaboration with Atelier LUM, the monumental installations erected within the building’s foundations feature stripped-back IPN structures that shape video screens to the specificities of the architecture. A vagabond soundscape moves within the scenography’s device, like a sonic thread uniting the exhibit’s outlines.