Cyril Lancelin activates a cube through light and movement

French artist and designer Cyril Lancelin, working through Town and Concrete, presents CUBE GRAPHICS at Marina Bay Sands for i Light Singapore, transforming a simple cubic volume into an immersive public artwork that visitors can enter and navigate. Built from a dense array of repeated tubular elements, the installation explores how geometric systems can produce shifting visual effects, creating a structure that appears to oscillate between architecture, sculpture, and digital imagery. Positioned within the festival’s urban setting, the project invites visitors to engage with space through movement, perception, and interaction.

From the outside, CUBE GRAPHICS reads as a vibrating surface whose appearance changes according to light conditions and viewing angles. The repetitive framework generates moiré-like visual effects that blur the distinction between rigid geometry and fluid form. Rather than presenting a static object, the installation relies on the viewer’s movement to activate its optical qualities, making perception itself a central component of the work.

all images by Vincent Ling, SY2, I Light Festival

cube’s luminous interior is shaped by color, light, and repetition

Inside, color gradients, reflections, and illuminated surfaces create a luminous environment that contrasts with the monochromatic exterior. A sequence of openings and corridors guides visitors through the structure, altering their sense of scale and orientation while producing constantly changing visual compositions. The installation uses a parametric logic of repetition and variation to create spatial complexity from a relatively simple construction system.

As a walkable sculpture, CUBE GRAPHICS reflects Lyon-based artist Lancelin’s ongoing interest in using modular geometries to generate immersive environments. The project examines how contemporary public artworks can function simultaneously as physical spaces and image-making devices, encouraging visitors to explore, photograph, and reinterpret the work through their own perspectives.

After dark, the installation takes on a different character as artificial lighting amplifies its layered patterns and saturated colors. Presented as part of i Light Singapore, CUBE GRAPHICS reflects a vision of contemporary environments where art, architecture, and digital culture converge into immersive and shareable experiences. 

CUBE GRAPHICS occupies the Marina Bay Sands waterfront during i Light Singapore

the installation’s tubular framework creates a shifting visual surface around a cubic volume

color gradients and reflections transform the cube into an immersive interior environment

repetition and perspective generate changing optical effects across the installation

the walkable sculpture encourages visitors to explore the relationship between body and space

project info:

name: Cube Graphics

designer: Cyril Lancelin / Town and Concrete | @town.and.concrete

location: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

client: I Light Festival Singapore

presented by: Marina Bay Sands

production: Pico

management: kdArt

photographers: Vincent Ling, SY2, I Light Festival

designboom has received this project from our DIY submissions feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here.

edited by: christina vergopoulou | designboom

The post cyril lancelin’s tubular installation becomes a walkable cube of light and color in singapore appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.