A sound installation transforms anonymous voices from around the world into living material mingled with lightning, composing a sensitive and poetic map of human desires between earth and sky.
Under the Skin of the Sky, immersive and participatory sound installation, 2026 Under the Skin of the Sky is an invisible membrane stretched between human hearts and the atmosphere, an installation conceived as a sensitive surface where anonymous voices from around the world leave their wishes, their desires, their most intimate prayers. These voices do not remain intact. Collected beforehand through a listening platform ahead of the event, they now pass through the sky, transform, and mingle with lightning strikes, mapped in real time across the world. From this emerges a living, shifting sound material, made of scattered intimacies and celestial energies. The work breathes like skin: it captures, transmits, vibrates. It makes audible what usually remains buried, a sensitive map of human desires on a planetary scale. Presented for the first time, Under the Skin of the Sky offers an experience that is both collective and intimate. In this act of listening, each person becomes one wave among others, a presence dissolved into an invisible choir, an attempt to stitch the world back together through sound, between inside and outside, between earth and sky. On the evening of Nuit Blanche, at the heart of the installation, an open phone-in line will be hosted all night by Dorothée Barba. You will be able to talk about your greatest wishes by calling 01 59 58 00 99. Open phone-in line from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Marie-Luce Nadal (born in 1984 in Perpignan, lives and works in Paris) is an artist and researcher. Her work explores atmospheric phenomena — clouds, lightning, winds — which she approaches as materials to cultivate, capture, or translate. At the crossroads of art, science, and fiction, she creates sensitive devices that connect bodies to the dynamics of the sky. Her works take the form of installations, machines, or narratives, in which the invisible becomes perceptible. Technical architecture and development: Adrien Revel Soundscape: Arthur Doué (composer), Alexander Maxwell (sound engineer) Audio processing and spatialization: Raphaël Revault, Matteo Bonasse Production partners: AKER, Manifestation Station, Racine du Ciel Technical partners: Holophonix, Twilio, blitzortung.org With the support of: DiCRéAM, Fulcrum Arts Thanks to: Dr Nadia Guerouaou, Paroisse Saint-Laurent Paris 10e, Dorothée Barba, Marie Vasconi and the Conservatoire Charles Munch. https://skinofthesky.cloud/ 📞 To take part in the work, simply call 01 59 58 00 99 and let yourself be guided as you leave your wish, whatever it may be!
Source: paris.fr — photo: Courtesy of the artist © Adagp, Paris, 2026