Light Machine (2016) is Veilhan’s largest light machine to date, a series of works he started developing in 2001. It contains 1536 custom made light bulbs, 25cm in diameter, that contain a total of 6144 LED lights.
The device does not project light, but generates it. The wall broadcasts a film in a definition that has been reduced to the same number of pixels as there are spheres.;
Light Machine, 2016 1306 x 905 x 50 cm / 514 1/8 x 356 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. Electronic components, leds, aluminium, glass Collection Galeries Lafayette / Courtesy Galerie Perrotin Photo © diane arques © Veilhan / ADAGP, 2016
Portrait Xavier Veilhan and Guillaume Houzé, Vice President Corporate Image and Communications, Galeries Lafayette Photo © diane arques © Veilhan / ADAGP, 2016
You can see Xavier Veilhan’s Light Machine (2016), in the atrium of the Menswear store at Galeries Lafayette. www.galerieslafayette.com
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