A.L.A · 2024 · Immersive

A.L.A · Listening Party and Festival de Sfax

Two shows for A.L.A in 2024: a sealed 301 m² LED box at the Zebra Club, and the open-air stage of the 44th Festival International de Sfax with SANFARA.

Two shows for the same artist in the same year, under opposite conditions. Listening Party, Zebra Club. A sealed LED box of 301 m², eleven metres by fifteen by three and a half, ceiling included. Nothing of the room was left outside the work: the walls, the floor and the ceiling all carried image, so the audience was not in front of a screen but inside one. A closed volume is the rare case where everything a body can see is yours to write, and the piece was built for that, reactive to the music and to the crowd, for an album launch and a birthday. Festival International de Sfax, 44th edition, with SANFARA. The exact opposite. A wide open-air stage, a fixed LED backdrop, daylight falling away during the set, and a crowd too far and too wide to react to. Here the image owns one surface and has to hold a whole field with it, so the work goes to contrast, to scale and to motifs that survive being seen from eighty metres: the A mark, mapped colour fields, forms that read before they are understood. Between the two is the real subject: the same artist, the same year, and a visual language that has to be rebuilt from scratch because the room changed.