Philippe Noir & Christine de Vichet
Philippe Noir & Christine de Vichet are the co-founders of the Itinérance agency, specialized in museum scenography and installations for the valorization of heritage. Between the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, they worked on the creation of so-called "sound and light" shows, multimedia works conceived in collaboration with other artists in the fields of visual arts, music, lighting and projection. As their name indicates, their work is based on the creation of itineraries within which the luminous creations punctuate a path and guide the spectator.
The project Les imaginaires du Mont-Saint-Michel, developed in 1991, is an excellent example: projection is used to illuminate and stage the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. The evocative atmosphere of the site is reinforced by the projection, which makes immaterial carpets appear on the stone floor of the abbey's rooms.
Another luminous journey illustrating the precursory work of the Itinérance agency is the event in the François Mitterrand park, in Issoudun, in 2001. The installation Le jardin des lucioles, where small spots of light at ground level illuminate the park, has inspired several works of contemporary artists. The relationship to space and wandering is also highlighted in the architectural mappings of the Itinérance agency: whether in Les Imaginaires in Azay-le-Rideau in 1996 or in the Nuits Lumière in Bourges in 1999, it is never a simple façade, but a set of urban elements that participate in the mapping.
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