Caroline Mathieu developed -together with her artistic team- LUMINAL, an immersive installation that explores the relationship between light and audience in a luminous experience of colour. This installation is part of her PhD in the Arts at RITCS/VUB.
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.
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.