For the first time, Photo Days is setting up in the library of the Hôtel de l’Industrie, a space usually closed to the public. This historic venue features an installation by Anaïs Tondeur that unfolds in a play of mirrors, plunging into ancient times to encounter an image of transformation.

As we experience a significant turning point, this photographic research draws from a passage in the Kojiki, a Japanese cosmogonic myth that recounts the rebirth of the world through laughter. Composed of a series of dioramas, referencing the pioneers of photography who came to these places, this installation showcases a series of photographs of landscapes born from the vibrations of human and non-human laughter.

To achieve this, we launched an international "call to laughter" and collected sounds emitted by various entities, whether animal or elemental, that could be associated with laughter. From this global sound journey, composer Floriane Pochon created an acoustic piece that is diffused here under thin membranes covered with a layer of earth and dust.

In a collision of temporal and spatial scales, and following the dynamics of orogenesis—the very principle of mountain formation—each laugh is transmitted for its vibration, setting dust particles in motion, re-arranging matter, and thus creating new worlds.