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Contemporary creation and old stones

Color exists only through light, whether natural or artificial. It is light that fuels our vision, the cradle of our illusions. Assuming an element of dream in the space we perceive allows us to develop new imaginations. Rêves Chromatiques takes us on a journey between the arts, science and heritage.

Jérémie Bellot, visual artist and artistic director of the Centre d’Art, invites visitors to explore the Château de Lumières. He offers visitors a fresh look at the heritage through his own creations, those he co-creates with his studio AV Extended and composer Ena Eno, as well as works by artists invited to create and exhibit at the Château.

Influenced by nature, polyhedral geometry and space, Rêves Chromatiques brings together contemporary digital creation and old stones.

Journey into a luminous digital universe where medieval and Renaissance architecture is revealed through beams of light and bricks of pixels.

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Hereditatem

Machine à Souvenirs (The Memory Machine)

La Machine à Souvenirs – Beaugency is an immersive art installation that invites viewers to immerse themselves in the memories and history of the town of Beaugency. The work presents constantly changing archival images, creating a captivating visual landscape.

The work thus offers a personal, immersive exploration of the city’s history, creating an intimate link between the viewer and memories of the past.

1000 ans d’histoire à Beaugency (1000 years of history in Beaugency)

1000 ans d’histoire à Beaugency (1000 years of history in Beaugency)

1000 ans d’histoire à Beaugency (1000 years of history in Beaugency)

Interlude interactif (Interactive interlude)

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Rêves Chromatiques

Coup de foudre (Lightning strike)

A frightening electric discharge with a very bright glow, lightning creates bridges in the midst of stormy chaos, connecting clouds to clouds and earth to sky. A symbol of intense connection and encounter, Jérémie Bellot’s dynamic, chaotic sculpture translates this encounter into vertical momentum.

Polychrome Reverberations

Seohyo’s “Polychrome Reverberations” is a series of generative images created by code. Projected in light via gobo, these fixed compositions explore the interactions between geometric shapes and chromatic vibrations. Each image becomes a frozen moment in an algorithmic process, where light reveals the poetry of a calculation.

Lune Dichroïque (Dichroic Moon)

A geode suspended in the Chapelle St Georges of the Château de Beaugency, this colorful star is the satellite of the work: the Blue Planet, visible from the Place Dunois.
An orbiting satellite magnetically positioned in this architecture dedicated to the sacred, this celestial star reflects and colors its surroundings, playing with light like a stained-glass window.

Red Stars

Flows are activated, fixed and gravitating. Wandering in residual spaces, the audience becomes the prey, the target; these moving particles are absorbed and restored through luminous celestial stars. The stars, sometimes hospitable, sometimes oppressive, absorb the context and dictate its rhythm. RED STARS takes us into the multiverse in this version, featuring passages at the foot of the stars.

Nuage de points (Cloud of points)

Holographic cube made up of three thousand luminous stars, the Nuage de Points project is an evolving visualization of stellar and geometric dreams. At times static and regular, offering optical illusions through the alignment of the stars, at other times moving to represent the dynamics of dreams and their visual materialization;

Exographies

Inspired by the long tradition of topographical surveys, the Exographies series explores the complexity of geomorphological phenomena at work in the universe in the form of imaginary computer-generated cartographies. A veritable scientific and visual fiction, it captures and highlights the multiple forces, turbulence and agents of erosion that tirelessly shape every telluric structure and, by extension, the possibility of creating the conditions for life.

Seat of illusions

Jérémie Bellot explores the theme of perspective by tackling the question of optical illusions. Inspired by OP Art and scientific experiments on cognition and illusions, he takes up the subject to take viewers on an immersive journey that casts doubt on their vision of reality.

Local Distopias in a Global Utopia

Travelling through three dystopian worlds, we first explore “High Rise Cult”, an abandoned village where replicas of wooden skyscrapers are supported by balloons, symbolizing fragile hopes. Next, “The Doomed City” takes us to a city born in no-man’s-land, influenced by a painting by Nicholas Roerich. The third architectural tale – “Phygital Limbo”. A confusing digital environment is continuously stimulated by a synthetic engine based on human emotions. Being here is like experiencing a collective conscious dream.
This immersive film challenges perceptions, blurring the boundaries between architectural imagination and reality.

Film by Sergey Prokofyev
Music by Alexander Muell

Bouncing Lights

“Bouncing Lights embodies the interactive metaphor of light, where lights dance in harmony with spectators. Like shooting stars, these bouncing lights create a captivating spectacle, where each visitor’s movement triggers a symphony of reflections and reverberations. In this installation, the luminous discs interact with the curious gazes and benevolent gestures of spectators, establishing a magical connection between art and observer. Each ricochet of light represents a response from the work to the emotions and energy of visitors, transforming each experience into a unique and personalized moment.

Chromatopolis

Chromatopolis

Noir Azur (Black Azure)

“Noir Azur” is a combination of matter and sensation.
A pool of black spheres, dense floating masses, stretches beneath a sky of suspended inflatable clouds.
Space becomes a plane of consistency: neither ground nor sky, but an intermediate zone, an in-between of perceptions.
Black here is not absence, but saturation: a field of opaque possibilities, a potential matter, still formless, waiting to be traversed, touched, activated.
Azure is not color, but a vanishing line, a directionless horizon of light, an immaterial opening into the indefinite.

Between gravity and suspension, between tactile darkness and spectral lightness, the work invites us to a journey of pure sensations.

Séquences (Sequences)

The installation of a version of the Séquences series at the Château de Beaugency creates a very special resonance between the clockwork in the 16th-century attic and the architecture of the site. The cycle, the sequence, materializes in light and sound in this inverted ship’s hull, offering us a singular vision of the site and its perspectives.

Iris

Our vision of the world depends on light. As human beings, vision is essentially situated in what we call the visible. The eye and its components are the tools for interpreting reality through the perception of shapes and colors.
The “IRIS” project questions the complexity and multiplicity of views and visual translations of the visible world through light.

What are the visions of the animal world? Is the eye the seat of illusions? Do we hold the truth about the image? Are we sure of our vision?

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Outsides

Eikosis

If you walk through the château’s gates, you may be lucky enough to discover Eikosis, the Château de Beaugency cat. The Eikosis are a family of twenty cats who travel from town to town, sucking up sunlight during the day and returning it at night, paying homage to their mother, the Moon. They interact with their adopted city and immerse themselves in its character. Each cat is unique, but all are part of the Eikosis family.

Here’s their story… The Sun decided to create the lion to frighten the Moon, in the image of Apollo, god of the stars and light, wishing to intimidate Artemis, his sister, goddess associated with the Moon. She mischievously responded and mocked him by creating the cats, who since then have lived alongside humans during the day and come together at nightfall in the moonlight to find their mother.

Jardin suspendu (Suspended garden)

The so-called “hanging garden” is located to the east of the plot, in place of the former ditches of the medieval château. The garden as we see it today is therefore an interpretation of the Renaissance garden. It was created in 2000 according to the old plans that enabled its historical reconstruction. It is a confidential garden, suspended above the rue du pont, where the vine and the hornbeam hedge keep it away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Planète Bleu (Blue Planet)