Yann Kersalé is an artist who uses light as others would earth or paint. He chooses night, a time which he favours to carry out his experimentation. By placing space and structures in movement, he proposes a new theme for the contemporary city.

Through specific sociological, historical, geographical or architectural elements, Yann Kersalé seeks a creative base from which he can draw a narrative topic. In this way, he creates luminous fictions in an urban environment, geographical and poetic paths in the midst of nature or forges his own light matter.

This is how most of his projects have come into being, both in France, such as the Cité Manifeste in Mulhouse, the Monoprix Porte de Châtillon, the Allée du Roi at Chaville, the Pont de Normandie, the embankments of Cherbourg, the Lyon Opera, the Port of Saint-Nazaire, and abroad, such as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona with Jean Nouvel, the Sparkasse in Germany, the Footbridge of Peace in Seoul with Rudy Ricccioti, the Deutsche Post in Bonn, the Sony Centre in Berlin, the Moulins de Beez in Namur, the barge lifts in Thieu, etc.

Yann Kersalé is currently working on projects in Paris at the Musée du Quai Branly, as well as in Nice, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Saint-Nazaire. Beyond French borders, his workshop is developing other projects in London, Venice, Germany and Portugal.


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