® 2022–2026 XAARCHIVE STUDIO XAA

<3SOR I CCCB

Light design for CCCB Museum

® Sofia Suarez, XAARCHIVE STUDIO

For our first installation for <3OR TRESOR at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, we developed a luminous structure conceived as the living core of the project.

Rather than occupying the venue as a conventional stage element, the installation was imagined as a beating center—an illuminated heart that pulsed in dialogue with the music and extended itself across the entire space. Light was not treated as decoration, but as matter: something elastic and atmospheric that could stretch, contract, and breathe.

From a central nucleus, the structure radiated outward, drawing invisible lines of tension through the room. Its presence reorganized perception, establishing a spatial rhythm that connected performers and audience within a shared field of energy. As the sound intensified, the installation seemed to expand; in quieter moments, it gathered itself inward, creating a sensation of collective inhalation and release.

The project marked the beginning of our exploration into responsive environments—where structure becomes organism, and architecture acts less as a container and more as a living system. In this first chapter of TRESOR, light became the soul of the space: a luminous body that beat, stretched, and evolved alongside the night.

Location
Barcelona, CCCB Museum
year
2024

light design by XAARCHIVE Studio
curation by Meritxell de Soto