LUMINAL - Caroline Mathieu

LUMINAL is an immersive installation that draws you into a world of light. The work explores the tension between individual and collective experiences of illumination. Personal associations become a space for encounter, offering new hues and inviting participants to engage with light as both medium and message. LUMINAL seeks to awaken a conscious experience of light and a heightened sensitivity to its transformative power. Light—and its absence—reshapes perception, becoming a poetic and sensorial tool for reflection and transformation.

This activity is part of Caroline Mathieu’s PhD in the Arts.

Caroline Mathieu is a lighting designer, scenographer, performer, and researcher in the fields of theater and dance. She studied product development and obtained a master-after-master degree in theater studies, followed by scenography training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Her professional journey began as an assistant lighting designer to Harry Cole for a production by Voetvolk | Lisbeth Gruwez. Since then, she has collaborated with artists such as Lydia McGlincy, Anne-Laure Vandeputte, BOG, Igor Shyshko, and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.

FUTURE NARRATIVES VII, that means a whole year of research events at RITCS. Artistic research and reflection are made visible in workshops, lectures, screenings, reading groups, you name it. FUTURE NARRATIVES VII runs from September 2025 to June 2026, and focuses on teachers and students, as well as all interested outsiders, both within and outside the creative field.