Light Installation Quotes

I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.

At my first exhibits, people were saying that's just a light on the wall.

I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.

'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

I have been interested in neon for a long time. The first neon I made was in 2006, using the word 'America.'