WEB has woven its threads throughout February during the Copenhagen Light Festival Blending minimal materials with large-scale impact, WEB transforms simplicity into spectacle about the internet. This network that connects us has reshaped our relationship to the world. WEB reveals its ambivalence: captivating yet potentially perilous. Have we woven a web that unites us or one that holds us captive?
A magical moment for OCTO at a monastery in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country, during the Umbra Festival Inspired by Confucius’s quote that the only constant in life is change, Octo symbolizes a world in the midst of transformation. Invited to contemplate the work for a few minutes, the viewer finds themselves immersed in an atmosphere straight out of a science fiction novel.
Photos : Umbra festival
Artistic direction and lighting design: Émilien guesnard Music: Cédric Béron Production: Scenitz
A look back at last January with pictures of Émilien guesnard emblematic work “αsklipion”, displayed outdoor at minus 15 degrees on the occasion of the Vilnius Light Festival. αsklipion translates plants into light and sound. The work offers a soothing, almost therapeutic experience. Its light and sound programming is constructed in harmony with the medicinal properties of each plant. Relaxing, it recalls the processes of light therapy and music therapy. αsklipion is an ode to nature, a haven of peace in the bustle of the city.
When light meets architecture: LINES OF CONSTRUCTION reveals the geometric forms and proportions that guided the design of a building. Behind every enduring construction lies a foundation of sketches lines drawn in pursuit of balance, harmony, and structural clarity. This laser show brings that creative process back into focus, redrawing the foundational strokes that shape architecture. The white, precise beams evoke the language of technical drawing. In motion, they reveal the hidden logic of the building, trace geometric patterns aligned with its structure, and invite multiple layers of interpretation
Photo: Nicolas Paolozzi
Artist: Nicolas Paolozzi Sound design: Baptiste Martineau Production: Module Distribution: Scenitz Event: Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc Light Festival 10 years anniversary
“Aria” the incredible show by Zenit Aerial Ballet over Marseille Old Port
Throwback at “Aria”, the incredible show by Zenit Aerial Ballet in Marseille’s Old Port as part of the end-of-year festivities organized by the city. We are very pleased to have contributed to the realization of this extraordinary project as curator and producer alongside the City.
Pics by Etienne Bluteau, Maïté Baldi, Paku Photographie, Ryan Layechi
Lumino curating: Cédric Le Borgne’s Travelers in Montreal
Scenitz is one of the guest curators of the Lumino festival organized by the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership in Montreal. As part of this event, discover the images of Les Voyageurs by French artist Cédric Le Borgne. Elusive explorers who contemplate the city, Les Voyageurs bring a touch of poetry to the urban space.
Emilien Guesnard and Scenitz Productions were in charge of part of the light show in the town of Saint-Genis Laval on December 6, with three custom-made installations.
Les Scintillons (Pia Vidal): for thousands of years, in Saint-Genis-Laval, the Light has been preparing itself. Hidden in the walls, stone, and concrete, it has infused itself into the fabric of the city, waiting for its moment. Today, it awakens to flood the world of humans once again. On the occasion of the Festival of Lights, guided by six Scintillons, it emerges from the shadows to reveal its messages to you.
Psychedelic Light Show (Emilien Guesnard & Cédric Beron): created from Emilien’s personal collection of vintage projectors, the Psychedelic Light Show offers a true alchemy of living light, projecting ever-changing shapes in a seventies atmosphere.
Moving Shadow (Emilien Guesnard): a light, a circular movement: almost nothing. Yet the rotation creates shadows that stretch, slide, and recompose themselves around the viewer. Everyone sees their body become a moving, fragile trace, redrawn with each turn. Moving Shadow offers an experience where light reveals presence as much as it makes it flicker.
Photos: Alban Guerry-Suire
Artists: Emilien Guesnard, Pia Vidal, Cédric Beron Programming & production: Emilien Guesnard & Scenitz Coproduction: Saint-Genis Laval City
Organ stood at the foot of Linköping Cathedral in Sweden throughout November, echoing the building’s architectural lines with finesse and poetry.
Organ reimagines the grandeur of the instrument as a sculptural body of light. Rising from the ground, elongated tubes recall the organ’s pipes, their radiant surfaces stretching skyward in a gesture of ascension. The installation becomes both instrument and architecture, an illuminated presence that commands attention with its vertical rhythm. Through carefully choreographed sequences of light and sound, Organ unfolds like a living composition, immersing visitors in an atmosphere at once solemn and magnetic. More than an object, it is an experience, a luminous organ whose voice resonates through space and within the viewer.
Last November, Anastasia Isachsen’s Point of (No) Return was featured at Durham’s must-see Lumière festival. Point of (No) Return is an evocative interactive installation that transforms the audience into co-creators of a visually captivating experience. As viewers step into the spotlight in front of the circular installation, luminous ice melts into flowing water. When they step back, the ice freezes again. This dynamic spectacle raises critical questions about our relationship with the environment: Is it too late to save our world? Are we at a point of no return, or is there still hope?
Photo : Lumiere Durham
Artist: Anastasia Isachsen Interactive conception: Tranversal Studio Music: Nils Petter Molvær Production: Fjord Studio Distribution: Scenitz
Nicolas Paolozzi’s web installation was in Zurich from November 19 to December 7, as part of the Zauberpark festival, which offers the public an international music and arts program over several weeks.
Web expands into space as a vast net, suspended above the ground like an otherworldly spider’s creation. Cords stretch from a central spine and anchor to the landscape, forming a fragile yet commanding volume. Laser light fractures into countless luminous points, racing along the threads like signals through an invisible network. Blending minimal materials with large-scale impact, the work transforms simplicity into spectacle. This network that connects us has reshaped our relationship to the world. WEB reveals its ambivalence: captivating yet potentially perilous. Have we woven a web that unites us or one that holds us captive?
