Nathalie Junod Ponsard

Nathalie Junod Ponsard essentially develops large luminous installations modifying the density of spaces and unsettling our visual capacities. Her works fill unusual locations with pure and saturated wavelengths, troubling our senses and triggering a physiological modification of our perceptual markers. Scientific experimentations have led her to explore the influence of light on biological systems, and to test the limits of perception, as well as the psychotropic effects of light. For her gallery exhibitions, in a more limited indoor setting, she creates smaller wall sculptures in transparent foil, generating alluring color effects when exposed to sources of natural of artificial light as well as the LED illuminated “Halo” galss works, giving us a good idea of her larger outdoor works.

Nathalie is well known for her permanent monumental works in the public space, e.g. Light Unfolding (2017) in front of the Austerlitz building, Persistent Twilight (2010-2020) at Place Malraux, and Precious Brilliance (2019) at Place de l’Europe Simone Veil, all in Paris, as well as Floating Horizon in Contemporary Art museum MOCA (2011, Rome, Italy). In 2021, she created a carpet-work of art, Odyssey, commissioned by Mobilier National for the large staircase of the Palais de l’Élysée, which seems to unfold under our feet as if we were stepping on light beams. Most recently, she was officially selected to create several light installations in the Athletes’ Village for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Her work has been shown internationally, at 6th Suzhou Jinji Lake Biennale, China (2023), Internationale Lichtkunst-Biennale, Hildesheim (2020), and Western China International Art Biennale (2017), among many others. She lives and works in Paris.