LuxEphemera is an immersive artwork that confronts visitors with a raw, primal experience of sight. It invites them to face vision as a purely physical phenomenon—a mere reflection of light on the retina, devoid of any content. What do we see when we see nothing? Or rather, what do we see when we do nothing but see? And what is vision when it is without content, when it shows us nothing but makes itself visible?

To achieve this, the artist recreates the conditions of a blinding glare with this work. Visitors first pass through a corridor flooded with such intense light that they are compelled to close their eyes. They then enter a passage shrouded in total darkness—an obscurity so absolute that no detail can be distinguished. Yet, lingering on the retina are small luminous spots, spectral and ghostly traces of light—phosphenes (from the Greek phos, meaning light, and phanein, meaning to show).

Following the passive experience of being dazzled, the visitor becomes active, as they themselves generate the image they perceive—an infinitesimal and fragile image, like an impalpable ephemeral artwork.