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"All the trees" in Brooklyn
Fort Greene park NYC

Together with @juliettebibasse we're crossing the Atlantic on the largest cargo sailing boat in the world.

Big announcement.
Follow us from March 10th for a big adventure. 🌊

Visited the @_solar_lab in Brussels and met the impeccable duo @joanielemercier and @juliettebibasse. I left feeling so inspired by the environmentally friendly media art they’ve been diligently conceiving, powered by the wind and the sun. The duo is going on a journey across the Atlantic on a boat, setting up a temporary art studio on the ocean before landing in NYC and the West Coast. Wishing you the best of luck 🌊🚢

Visited the @_solar_lab in Brussels and met the impeccable duo @joanielemercier and @juliettebibasse. I left feeling so inspired by the environmentally friendly media art they’ve been diligently conceiving, powered by the wind and the sun. The duo is going on a journey across the Atlantic on a boat, setting up a temporary art studio on the ocean before landing in NYC and the West Coast. Wishing you the best of luck 🌊🚢

Visited the @_solar_lab in Brussels and met the impeccable duo @joanielemercier and @juliettebibasse. I left feeling so inspired by the environmentally friendly media art they’ve been diligently conceiving, powered by the wind and the sun. The duo is going on a journey across the Atlantic on a boat, setting up a temporary art studio on the ocean before landing in NYC and the West Coast. Wishing you the best of luck 🌊🚢

Visited the @_solar_lab in Brussels and met the impeccable duo @joanielemercier and @juliettebibasse. I left feeling so inspired by the environmentally friendly media art they’ve been diligently conceiving, powered by the wind and the sun. The duo is going on a journey across the Atlantic on a boat, setting up a temporary art studio on the ocean before landing in NYC and the West Coast. Wishing you the best of luck 🌊🚢

Visited the @_solar_lab in Brussels and met the impeccable duo @joanielemercier and @juliettebibasse. I left feeling so inspired by the environmentally friendly media art they’ve been diligently conceiving, powered by the wind and the sun. The duo is going on a journey across the Atlantic on a boat, setting up a temporary art studio on the ocean before landing in NYC and the West Coast. Wishing you the best of luck 🌊🚢

170.000 years: this is the average time it takes for a photon to escape the core of the sun and reach its surface. Outside the Sun, the photons will then travel the 149.6 million km distance to the Earth in under 8 minutes.

The light that warms and illuminates the world today was created 170,000 years ago in a nuclear fusion reaction, deep in the heart of the Sun.

This passive, analog installation is a tribute to this journey, its message made visible by the very photons that pass through the lens.

Caustics lens computation: @rayform
Timelapse: @romaintes_

Sculpting light from the sun.

Behind the scenes: we're making lenses to bend solar rays and redirect photons into a circle, as an homage to the sun.

Caustics lens computation: @rayform

Solaris lumens is currently on view at @mudaclausanne.

Sculpting light from the sun.

Behind the scenes: we're making lenses to bend solar rays and redirect photons into a circle, as an homage to the sun.

Caustics lens computation: @rayform

Solaris lumens is currently on view at @mudaclausanne.

Sculpting light from the sun.

Behind the scenes: we're making lenses to bend solar rays and redirect photons into a circle, as an homage to the sun.

Caustics lens computation: @rayform

Solaris lumens is currently on view at @mudaclausanne.

Sculpting light from the sun.

Behind the scenes: we're making lenses to bend solar rays and redirect photons into a circle, as an homage to the sun.

Caustics lens computation: @rayform

Solaris lumens is currently on view at @mudaclausanne.

Sculpting light from the sun.

Behind the scenes: we're making lenses to bend solar rays and redirect photons into a circle, as an homage to the sun.

Caustics lens computation: @rayform

Solaris lumens is currently on view at @mudaclausanne.

Sculpting light from the sun.

Behind the scenes: we're making lenses to bend solar rays and redirect photons into a circle, as an homage to the sun.

Caustics lens computation: @rayform

Solaris lumens is currently on view at @mudaclausanne.

Solaris lumens: a solar projection

This analog projection system is a custom optical plate that concentrates the sun's rays, deflecting photons and sculpting light. Solaris lumens is an homage to Spinoza's idea of Pantheism: as soon as the Sun shines, it produces a circle that becomes perfect at a specific moment of the day.

The installation is currently on view just outside @mudaclausanne
in Lausanne Switzerland.

Solaris lumen, 2024-2025

Creation & conception: @_solar_lab (@JulietteBibasse & @JoanieLemercier)

Caustics lens computation: @rayform

Technical development: Martin Pirson (@mrtnprsn Studio Lemercier)

Timelapses: @romaintes_

Work commissioned by @mudaclausanne as part of the Solar Biennale Soleil.s 2025

Solaris lumens: a solar projection

This analog projection system is a custom optical plate that concentrates the sun's rays, deflecting photons and sculpting light. Solaris lumens is an homage to Spinoza's idea of Pantheism: as soon as the Sun shines, it produces a circle that becomes perfect at a specific moment of the day.

The installation is currently on view just outside @mudaclausanne
in Lausanne Switzerland.

Solaris lumen, 2024-2025

Creation & conception: @_solar_lab (@JulietteBibasse & @JoanieLemercier)

Caustics lens computation: @rayform

Technical development: Martin Pirson (@mrtnprsn Studio Lemercier)

Timelapses: @romaintes_

Work commissioned by @mudaclausanne as part of the Solar Biennale Soleil.s 2025

Our new project Solar Lab is bringing us to new experimentation spaces: wooden structures, mirrors, 3D print, laser calibration.

We just did a residency in the hometown of the inventor of the first solar powered engine (Mouchot, 1878) and on the solstice, we activated our solar concentrator at night with low powered lasers and smoke.

music: Stria - Grain Clouds VI

Manual mirror alignment.

Solar concentrator by day
Laser concentrator by night

A solar projector ☀️
215.000 lumens
all from the sun

The amount of energy conveyed by the sun is hard to grasp.

At @_solar_lab we're carrying a series of simple experiments to start understanding the scale and potential of sun rays.

It only takes a few seconds to set paper, cardboard and wood on fire, with only 2 mirrors of 38cm diameter (you can see the 2 sun rays through the smoke).

Imagine if we started using this energy more efficiently.

Our solar concentrator will soon be open source, so anyone can join us in the playful research.