Presented on the evening of Saturday, June 6, as the closing event of the SAT Dome residency as part of the Futurs Antérieurs festival, Lueurs Quantiques by France Jobin and Markus Heckmann highlighted a suspended space of perception, where the dome became a field of experimentation. Beneath the Satosphere, the sound unfolded across a spatialization of more than 90 speakers, fragmenting the air into imperceptible movements.
France Jobin’s sound work, rooted in a minimalist approach that she conceives as a sculpture of listening, manifests itself here in precise, almost imperceptible micro-events that float like weightless dust. Restraint becomes substance, and silence a vehicle for tension, structuring a space where every shift in intensity redefines depth.
In response, Markus Heckmann’s visual systems generate streams of light in real time. Mist, beams, and shadows emerge as fleeting phenomena, immediately absorbed by the darkness. The light does not create fixed forms, but rather transient states.
Inspired by the principles of quantum physics and the structures of architectural space, the work explores zones of indeterminacy where perception and disappearance coexist without hierarchy. In this exhibition following the residency, the creative process remains visible, like a material still in the making.
Beneath the dome, *Futurs Antérieurs* takes on a literal resonance: a future that has already come to pass, still unfolding in the shadow of what has not yet happened.
Photo Credit: Nina Gibelin Souchon
