Francis Laporte and Alexis Laurence from PERSÉIDES STUDIO
Montreal, Canada
PERSÉIDES STUDIO
Les Diamants dazzle as they reflect sunlight, and shine brightly when they light up at night. From a distance, Alexis Laurence and Francis Laporte’s elegant interactive artwork, Les Diamants, draws your eye, inviting you to get closer and make the structures turn. Their movement produces a melody along with a kaleidoscopic array of glittering lines and points. Each Diamant has its own distinctive colour and tune. When you get together with other people to make each installation spin, the artwork produces a harmonious waltz in music and light, a thrill for your eyes and ears.
Design and production
Alexis Laurence and Francis Laporte, Perséides studio
Manufacturing and mechanical design
Jack World inc.
Musical composition
Stefie Shock
Sound design
Jean-Michel Caron
Expertise and interactive and technological programming
Studio La Fougue
LED specialist and integration
Softbox Integration
Mechanical and electrical design consultant
Pierre Masse
Production consultant
Amélie Richard
A co-production of
The Partenariat du Quartier des Spectacles, the Société de Développement de l’Avenue du Mont-Royal, Montréal centre-ville, Culture Trois-Rivières and the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles
“Les Diamants was born of Alexis’ and my desire to combine our expertise and undertake a joint unifying project during the pandemic. We want to encourage people to get out, come together and reoccupy our public spaces. Our goal is to create a moment of poetry between participants and for the work to bring joy and entertainment to the citizens of the Quebec cities hosting the installation.”
Les Diamants de Perséides Studio, Trois-Rivières, Canada, 2022 © Oli Croteau
Les Diamants de Perséides Studio, Luminothérapie 13e édition, Montréal, Canada, 2022 © Remi Hermoso
Les Diamants de Perséides Studio, Trois-Rivières, Canada, 2022 © Oli Croteau
Les Diamants de Perséides Studio, Montréal, Canada, 2022 © Arrondissement de Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles
Les Diamants de Perséides Studio, Montréal, Canada, 2021 © Vivien Gaumand
Les Diamants de Perséides Studio, Luminothérapie 13e édition, Montréal, Canada, 2023 © JF Savaria