A stage and lighting designer in the performing arts since the 2000s,
Guillaume Cousin reflects on the influence and impact that the environment and time have on us. He told us that since he was a child, he has been very curious about how things work in general, about the mechanisms that make everything function. And it is likely that this curiosity has led him to research into quantum physics, a knowledge that helps him explain the relationship between entities, space, and air. His installation,
Le Silence des Particules is a materialisation of these concerns in which, stripped of artifice, he aims to break with the magical technicity of this type of piece, leaving all the processes of his smoke circle machine on view. For Cousin, all sophisticated techniques are comparable to magic, and he wants, as far as possible, to reflect on this belief.