57 colors saturate the interior of historic chapel in france
Tomislav Topić turns the chapel at Centre d’art Les 3 CHA in Châteaugiron, France, into a floating chromatic field with ECHOVERSE, an optical installation composed of 451 translucent layers in 57 colors. Spanning thirteen suspended modules and rising nearly sixteen meters, the work recasts the vaulted interior as an environment where color behaves like sound, drifting, echoing, and reshaping the perception of depth. Installed after more than a year of research and five days of on-site assembly, the piece, on view through December 14th, 2025, introduces a contemporary, weightless counterpoint to the chapel’s heavy stone volumes.
From the ground, ECHOVERSE appears like a slow-moving gradient frozen mid-flow: sheets of mesh overlap into bands of violet, red, orange, and blue, shifting saturation as daylight threads through the historic stained-glass windows. The layers catch and refract the ambient light, projecting faint ripples onto the walls and floor. These chromatic shadows act as secondary drawings, expanding the installation beyond its physical limits and inviting visitors to orbit it from multiple vantage points. The material is almost imperceptibly thin, allowing the color fields to hover with softness.
all images by Gwendal Le Flem
ECHOVERSE: Tomislav Topić’s Gradient waves
Topology and repetition are central to the Berlin-based artist’s practice, which draws from color design and the spatial sensitivities of urban art. Tomislav Topić’s geometric compositions typically rely on minimal interventions that amplify the character of an existing site, altering perception without overpowering the architecture. In ECHOVERSE, this approach becomes a dialogue between the medieval timber ceiling, which becomes a canopy for a contemporary gradient, while the elongated nave of the chapel functions as a corridor for chromatic drift. The suspended modules trace a loose wave that seems to rise and fall along the length of the space, echoing the artist’s interest in rhythm and visual sound.
Topić chose the title ECHOVERSE for its layering of meaning: ‘A polyphonic weave of perception and repetition — every color, every layer, every viewpoint echoes another, like lines of a poem or waves of sound moving through space.’ This idea becomes palpable as viewers move beneath the installation, where small shifts in angle produce new readings of the same elements.
Tomislav Topić turns the chapel at Centre d’art Les 3 CHA into a floating chromatic field
an optical installation composed of 451 translucent layers | image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav
spanning thirteen suspended modules and rising nearly sixteen meters | image via @topic_tomislav
the work recasts the vaulted interior as an environment where color behaves like sound | image via @topic_tomislav
