The Centre Pompidou is presenting for a limited time Skylight (2022), a solid light installation created by Anthony McCall in collaboration with composer and musician David Grubbs. Extending McCall’s ongoing exploration of the volumetric properties of light—a defining feature of his work—Skylight incorporates a sonic dimension.

Light and sound share common physical properties: they propagate through space and time, shaping their contours and revealing their architecture. The soundscape developed by David Grubbs in close collaboration with the artist—whose dramaturgy draws on the form of a storm—extends and amplifies these spatial qualities, offering an experience that is at once visual, acoustic, and physical.

Evening Program

David Grubbs composition
Anthony McCall Skylight

Coproduction Musée national d’Art moderne/Département culture et création/IRCAM-Centre Pompidou.