Train Fantôme
Macula Nigra & Simon Poligné
Free
From 5 to 8 October, 2023
Thursday & Friday: 01:00 pm to 06:30 pm
Week-end: 10:00 am to 06:30 pm
Théâtre du Vieux St-Étienne
Free
The brainchild of visual artists and set designers Macula Nigra and Simon Poligné, Train Fantôme is a 3-D luminescent installation. Packed with visual surprises, this model, with its multiple plays on colour, print and light, takes us back to an overflowing funfair.
The piece’s sensitive low-tech touch, coupled with the aesthetic and poetic flamboyance of its staging, transports us into a phantasmagorical world where this miniature ghost train circulates. Inspired as much by Daguerre’s diorama as by the fairground world of the famous attraction of the same name, the installation invites spectators to contemplate this abundant, fantastic and moving optical theatre under UV light.
Plunged into the darkness, faced with this dazzling universe, everyone is tempted to film this fascinating microcosm. The physicality of this miniature funfair, captured in this way, evokes a new perception, oscillating between the real and the artificial, illusion and reality.
In pictures
Train Fantôme is an original creation by Macula Nigra and Simon Poligné, produced with the support of Superflux and presented by Electroni[k].
Accessibility
Disabled
Hearing impairment
Mental or psychic disorders
Reduced functional capacities
Artists linked
Macula Nigra
France
Macula Nigra develops a practice of printed images, creating utopian universes through collage work, drawing on a variety of iconographic sources. Associations of images and signs are at the heart of his work, combining themes such as architecture, graphic design, specific printing processes and the different ways in which images appear (stereoscopy, holography, etc.).
Simon Poligné
France
A painter, sculptor, set designer and musician, Simon Poligné‘s visual and pictorial universe is steeped in references to art history, pop culture and the practices of trompe l’oeil and fakery.