Where the ordinary collapses is a performative and luminous journey that invites us to feel the impact of artificial light on our contemporary lives, in a world shaped by capitalist logics.

Through a series of luminous stations, creatures tasked with lighting an ant farm lead us into a neon-saturated world. Queer, fluid, unruly bodies, they know both the zones of overexposure and those of erasure. They live on the margins, where norms crumble.

Evolving in the limbo of neon-saturated existences, exhausted by hyperproductivity, these creatures plunge us into their ordinary lives at the very moment they falter and collapse.

Light becomes a material to be experienced. Violence and possibility at the same time.
The bodies are alternately overexposed, fragmented, fluorescent under UV light, sometimes almost dissolved in smoke. Through them, light reveals its mechanisms: it selects, prioritizes, controls. But it also opens up spaces for drifting, celebration, and reappropriation.

The participants in the experience are at the heart of the installation. It is constructed from tulle, playing on transparency and the appearance/disappearance of light. Neon lights, UV light, video, and smoke create a shifting, luminous texture. The light sources, particularly the neon lights, are manipulated on stage by the performers. The act of illuminating becomes a performative and political act.

What objects does light make visible?
Which ones is she keeping in the shadows?
What is she doing to us?

Between fascination and constraint, control and emancipation, light appears as a paradoxical force.

What if the collapse of the ordinary was a shift towards other sensibilities?