Biography
Caroline Mathieu is active as a designer for theater creations. The roles she takes are diverse: lighting designer, scenographer, performer and researcher. After a product development course and a master after master in Theater Sciences (University of Antwerp), design, design and theater come together in the part-time art course Scenography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
After her studies, she started as a lighting design assistant for the performance “It’going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend” by Voetvolk | Lisbeth Gruwez. Since then she has worked as a freelance lighting designer for Mercedes Dassy, Tom Adjibi, Igor Shyshko, Tale Dolven, Dan Musset, Laurent Delom de Mézerac, Alexander Vantournhout, Moya Michael and Helena Dietrich, among others. Parallel to her career as a lighting designer, she worked as a performer in interactive theater projects.
The combination of these experiences convinced her of the power that light carries and motivated her to conduct deeper research into the influence of light on the perception and experience of it within a performative setting. After a number of artistic residencies and a research grant through the Flemish government (arts decree), the research found a framework within the Arts Platform Brussels in the form of a doctorate in the arts (VUB/RITCS).
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In residentie LUMINAL*
01.01.2026 – 01.01.2026
Together with her artistic team lightartist Caroline Mathieu (she/her, BE) develops LUMINAL*, an immersive installation exploring the relationship between light, color and the audience. LUMINAL* envelops the audience in a total experience of light, where color, scenography, (spoken) audio, and non-verbal actions invite the public to a (more) conscious, multi-sensory perception of color.
The residency at C-Takt is the last one of five different residency in which the team experimented with movement, scenography, sound and text and their relation to light: how does their materiality shape the light and how do they support the experience of the audience. During this last residency the team will test a new scenography, based on previous experiments, and LUMINAL* will return back to basics: the light.
