At the heart of the Palais Saint-Melaine, in an abandoned laboratory, scraps of paper dance, serpent-like shadows intertwine and clouds, sheltered beneath glass domes, seem to let time pass them by.

With Le silence du monde, juggler, object manipulator and magician Étienne Saglio returns to Les Tombées de la Nuit to explore the relationship between magic and the visual arts. Bringing magic into the real world, and doing away with the stage, the wings and even the visible magician, he invites us into a space of contemplation and solitude, face to face with the silence of the world.

In this realm of magical thought, suspended somewhere between dream and reality, surrender to the gentle strangeness of it all. Hypnotic.