‘La Fabrique’ is a new installation by The Cloud Collective for the 22nd International Post and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont. The installation fills a small room in La Fabrique, a former textile printing factory, with a soft landscape of projected letters forming the poem “Oppressive Light” by Robert Walser.
A small pathway cuts through the murmuring wave, allowing visitors to “explore the landscape, read the poem in full and immerse themselves in the new connotations that arise between text and form.”
The collective are a collaborative of freelance architects and graphic designers who describe themselves as a “social, open and creative party that measures, explores, experiments, creates, produces and does research.”
The poem, in full:
“Oppressive light”
Robert Walser
Two trees stand in the snow
tired of the light the sky
Heads home nothing nearby
Where the gloom makes its abode
And behind the trees houses
Tower in the dark
Now you hear someone speak
The dogs begin to bark
The round beloved moonlight
Lamp appears in the house
But when the light goes out
A gaping wound stays in sight
What a small life to know
And much nothingness nearby
Tired of the light the sky
Has given all to the snow
The two trees dance with grace
Bend their heads and nod
Clouds race across the sod
Of the worlds silent face