Neon Light Sculpture in a Paris Museum Rotunda

29 May 2022 · Paris

Looping neon tubes hang suspended inside a neoclassical rotunda in Paris, filling the upper volume with what reads less like lighting and more like a drawing made in air. The clerestory windows ring the dome above; below, a white curved partition and a circular ottoman anchor the floor in near-total calm. The sculpture pulls two ideas against each other — the rotunda's classical weight and the neon's restless, hand-drawn energy — and holds them in the same breath.