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In the heart of the dark Lumière forest, visitors encounter a shimmering transparent chamber,   a space where nature’s familiar shapes and colors are warped into strange, futuristic forms. A surreal vision of a near-future world where the boundaries between natural and artificial dissolve. At the center of this space lies a smaller, second room: a miniature diorama encapsulating a tree that disappears behind the prismatic glass. 

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HINTERLAND, by artists Heleen Blanken and Marieke Nooren, invites visitors to step across a temporal threshold,  a passage between what we once knew and a future we can barely comprehend. It is a moment of disorientation, where we must face the unsettling truth: everything is already changing. The hinterland becomes a metaphor for this state of in-between,  a place we don’t fully understand, but must learn to recognize as our new reality.

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Concept Heleen Blanken and Marieke Nooren
Construction: Ian Considine​

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