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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.

20 rue Saint Sauveur 75002
+33 9 70 66 95 66
contact@matiere-noire.paris
recruitement@matiere-noire.paris

Spatial design studio
Light design
Scenography

The Bourse du Commerce's neoclassic rotunda becomes a vessel for sonic and visual transcendence, where Arthur Jafa's curatorial vision merges with Robert Hood and Crystallmess's techno odyssey. Custom lighting elements, surgically integrated into wall cavities, create a chameleonic system that merges with the architecture, while adapting to each musical movement. Chromatic manipulations express storytelling - colorimetric variations altering spatial perception, stroboscopic effects fragmenting time, and sinusoidal fades creating waves of illumination that cascade over the circular space. The lighting design creates simultaneous realities: intimate amber corners, explosive strobe-lit zones, and gradient areas that provide a peripheral respite.