The Annie Cordy Tunnel, a busy road tunnel in Brussels, has undergone a global renovation including the lighting scenography. This project is part of a desire to enhance the attractiveness of the Brussels tunnels by integrating artistic interventions.
The scenographic lighting of the Annie Cordy tunnel goes with an artistic intervention on the vertical walls by the artist Charlotte Beaudry.
“Stand Up” presents silhouettes of girls who evoke adolescence and the search for identity by adopting a posture as self-expression.
“I wanted, with the help of these 30 young women in simple and direct attitudes, to show the multi-cultural nature of Brussels while underlining their desire to mark the territory, to make it their own. They present themselves fully and without artifice, from the front when entering the city and from the back when leaving. This gallery of frontal portraits gives a strong image of women, which is also what Annie Cordy embodied for many people.” Charlotte Beaudry
These characters are drawn in black/anthracite and their colouring is done by light. The lighting project which goes with this story is told by predominantly blue tones (with warm accents) for the entrance to Brussels (energizing light in the morning) and predominantly yellow/orange tones for the exit in the early evening (soothing light in the evening).
The lighting, arranged only on rails in the ceiling, is made up of 2 interactive layers of light: the background and the accents. The technical and financial constraints being very important, the spotlights (ROHL) are all the same and are in bold colours (not RGB) to have their full power.
The background is made up of the general lighting of the sequence, which develops in a broad rhythm with variations in intensity and a dominant colour. The highlights are intermediate, more limited projections of more marked colour and intensity that animate the sequence.
The colour, given by the light, is an identifying element for the tunnel.
It is intended to give colour to Charlotte Beaudry’s work, but also to highlight the succession of volumes, and in this sense it spills over onto the secondary walls and ceilings…
A coherent and identifiable colour sequence that affirms the volumes and graphic sequences. This succession of visuals also establishes secondary reference points for crossing the tunnel. Radiance35 and Charlotte Beaudry, through their intervention, give another image to this linear tunnel.
