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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
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Spatial design studio
Light design
Scenography

Conceived as an environment in perpetual transformation, the scenography unfolds through the convergence of multiple mediums. Architecture, ground, bodies and technical structures intertwine to compose a moving image that is unstable, continuously evolving. Space is not fixed; it reveals itself through the sensory experience of those who move through it. The perception of this environment is structured through a dialogue of parallel layers. On the ground, a surface of black sand functions as an active memory. Under the dancers’ impulses, the material shifts, gradually unveiling a buried grid of near-immaculate white. Each movement leaves a trace. Each passage reconfigures the landscape. Suspended above, a motorised structure: a mechanical constellation inhabited by light and smoke, conducts atmospheric variations, redefining the perceptible volumes of space. Activated by the choreography of Kiani Del Valle, the scenography operates as a reactive system in which bodily movement and technical mechanisms mutually influence one another. Light, matter, and atmosphere resonate in unison, continuously modulating the reading of space. The result is an immersive experience poised at the threshold between the visible and the perceptible, where the environment is shaped by those who inhabit it.

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