We explore new ways of presenting works within contemporary spaces, bringing together architecture, design, and emerging technologies.
We create immersive and complex experiences while placing the creative process at the core of everything we do.
From understanding artistic intentions to material research, prototyping, and final delivery, we support each project across its entire lifecycle.
The studio was founded by Sibel Varer, who brings over ten years of experience in production and image-led publishing. Her work includes collaborations with international brands across the fashion and cultural sectors.
“Tshirt” is a collective shaped around the graphic tee. An object historically rooted in mass consumption yet continuously reappropriated contemporary culture. Through the hybridization of streetwear and haute couture, the T-shirt becomes more than a garment: it turns into a surface of expression, a cultural marker, and a tool through which new symbolic boundaries of fashion are negotiated.
The installation stages this elevation of the everyday object within the context of Milan Design Week, displacing the graphic tee from the realm of merchandise into that of exhibition and contemplation. By sacralizing the garment, the piece questions the mechanisms through which cultural legitimacy is produced and displayed.
Conceived from the screen-printing frame as its primary structural element, the installation reinterprets this technical tool through the use of stainless steel and glass. The raw, functional language of the silkscreen frame enters into dialogue with elevated materials, creating a tension between industrial production and design.
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DSL Studio
RITUALS
Untimely visitors drift through a revisited cabaret. A blackened void opens at the center of the space, dissolving into the atmosphere and revealing translucent shadows of performers. This is the story behind RITUALS, a live installation combining dance, sound, and light. Isolating performers in theatrical beams, the lighting bridges the space between projection and performance.
Chorégrapher
Les Moches - Axel Ibot & Carla
To Be Sung is a production created at the Fondation Louis Vuitton around one of the leading figures of contemporary opera, Pascal Dusapin.
Invited to engage with the work, Pharrell Williams conceived a scenographic and lighting dialogue responding to the score’s suspended moments of silence. These charged silences filled with inaudible frequencies , were embodied through suspended water effects, frozen in mid-air by a lighting concept developed by Matiere Noire. To Be Sung explores the threshold between sound and absence, making the invisible perceptible.
CENTRALsv was commissioned to produce the development of the scenography and oversee the synchronization between stage movements and the artistic ensemble, ensuring a precise alignment between spatial composition, performative gesture, and musical structure.
Orchestre
Narrator
Sopranos
Sonorisation et spatialisation
Scénographie et lumière
Mouvement
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Le Balcon
Dirigé par Maxime Pascal
Florence Darel
Norma Nahoun / Elise Chauvine / Jenny Davier
Florent Derex
Matiere Noire
Suzanne Meyer
Ophélie Maurus
Working closely with Trauma, our mission was to translate the collective’s artistic vision into an experience that merged sound, light, and performance within the unique underground architecture
Unfolding beneath the 18th arrondissement, the program features sets by Europa and Emma DJ with cxoxc, a performance by Raphaelle, and a site-specific light environment by Matiere Noire.Three levels underground, in the subterranean vaults of the former French retailer Tatí, the night kicks off with a DJ set by Europa.
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Ophélie Maurus
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Ophélie Maurus
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Ophélie Maurus
On the occasion of the release of Magma No. 3 ‘Archive of the Future’ an exhibition extends the publication into space. Installed at 127 rue de Turenne, this curatorial project brings together a selection of original works featured in the book: paintings, photographs, sculptures, as well as sound and film installations. Staged by the Paris-based studio Matière Noire the exhibition offers a singular encounter: the possibility of inhabiting a book, of living alongside its artworks.
Supported by
Scenography
Graphisme
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Bottega Veneta
Matiere Noire
Faye and Gina
Ophélie Maurus
Grounded in a deep understanding of James Turrell’s minimalist legacy, CentralSV joined the realization of his solo exhibition at Gagosian Le Bourget. The studio combined conceptual research with technical expertise to emphasize the atmospheric qualities of Turrell’s pioneering works. Working in close partnership with the James Turrell Studio, CentralSV oversaw the execution of the construction, coordinating for several months with architectural teams Matiere Noire and lighting engineers to bring the project to life.
Architectural and execution oversight
Engineering
Imagery
Matiere Noire
Studio Barthelmes
Thomas Lanne
Bringing together 32 past guest curators, the exhibition, designed by Ciguë in collaboration with Matthieu Prat (Diplomates) and Simon Chaouat, extends the magazine’s universe beyond the page.
Objects on display include Yohji Yamamoto’s pack of cigarettes, Jun Takahashi’s silk teddy bear made for A Magazine Curated By Pierpaolo Piccioli alongside his interpretation of a Hermès Kelly bag, Kris Van Assche’s Libertad o Muerte necklace, Stephen Jones’ Planetarium hat and Giambattista Valli’s old iPhone with personal photographs.
In addition, designers contributed silhouettes representing their signature styles, including Glenn Martens (Y/Project), Kim Jones (Dior), Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez (Proenza Schouler), Yohji Yamamoto, Peter Do, Thom Browne, Martine Sitbon and Lucie and Luke Meier (Jil Sander).
The exhibition also features the magazine’s complete digital archive, presented in full for the first time in collaboration with SOOT, offering visitors a chance to explore the visual and narrative evolution of A Magazine Curated By.
Material
Graphisme
Imagery
cigüe
Elsa Mueller
Ophélie Maurus