Skylight (2022), a solid-light installation by Anthony McCall and David Grubbs.
Installation. As part of the Festival ManiFeste, the Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne invites Anthony McCall to take over the Espace de projection de l'Ircam to present "Skylight" (2022), a solid-light installation created in collaboration with composer and musician David Grubbs. A major figure in contemporary art, Anthony McCall has, since the early 1970s, developed a radical and deeply innovative body of work at the intersection of cinema, sculpture, and installation. Since the 2000s, he has created large-scale digital installations. Extending the research into the volumetric properties of light as a medium that characterizes McCall's entire body of work, "Skylight" adds a sonic dimension. Light and sound share common physical properties: they travel through space and time, define their contours, and reveal their architecture. The soundscape developed by David Grubbs in close collaboration with the artist — with a dramaturgy inspired by the shape of a storm — extends and amplifies these spatial qualities, offering an experience that is at once visual, acoustic, and bodily. In partnership with the Festival ManiFeste-2026 of Ircam and the Constellation du Centre Pompidou. With the support of Fonds AXA pour le progrès humain, a major patron of Ircam, and Fondation pour la musique Ernst von Siemens. Curated by Jonathan Pouthier, Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou.
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Source: paris.fr — photo: Anthony McCall, installation view, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, 2018. Photo by Dan Bradica. Image courtesy Pioneer Works - Courtesy of artist, Sean Kelly New York, and Sprüth Magers