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Art 2026

Take a peek at the art pieces and installations that have been selected to bring the Dream Factory to life. Each one imagined, built, and offered by a member of our community.

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The MAGIC

Gandjalf

Step into the MAGIC: an open-air haven tucked under a beautifully decorated pergola, open throughout the night and free for everyone to wander into. Sink into a sun lounger or cushion, face the projection screen, and let your imagination take the wheel.

This space is designed around one idea: you are the artist.

What's waiting for you:

AI Image Generation: Anyone can walk up to the computer and create original images using AI, just type a prompt or describe your vision out loud. Want to go deeper? Switch on the high-contrast mode and slip on a pair of ChromaDepth 3D glasses to see your creations gain a whole new dimension.

Collaborative Video Workshop (one special evening)

Join a group session to co-create a short music video using various AI tools. A collective experiment in real-time filmmaking. Spots are limited by the budget for these compute-hungry models, so come early!

Night Time Screenings

Settle in for VJ sets, Deep Dream AI visuals, and handcrafted video edits. Feature films and documentaries may also make an appearance.

💡 Dream Machine Sessions (occasional)

Experience the hypnotic flicker of a stroboscopic lamp — the legendary Dream Machine, designed to trigger kaleidoscopic visions behind closed eyes. A few dedicated sessions will be scheduled throughout the week.

The tree of principles

Oceane

A wooden sculpture in the shape of a tree. It bears the 11 Principles instead of leaves, each one mounted on a vertical axis and spinning gently like prayer wheels in the wind.

At its heart sits a handpan, with each note tuned to one of the Principles. As you pass through the gate, you're invited to strike all eleven — letting the sound rattles as a personal gesture of commitment to the spirit of Crème Brûlée.

A moment of intention, wrapped in music.

OOM (out of mana)

pierre

Three crystals rise from the earth... or so it seems. Each one a cluster of light and reflection, endlessly multiplying, pulling your gaze inward.

Stand here for a moment. Let the world dissolve.

Illucid Dreams

Constantin

"Illucid Dreams is a visual art project about dreams, altered states, and inner worlds. It combines video, motion design, fractals, match transitions, and generative AI to create flowing, psychedelic imagery. The final piece is a 15-hour visual journey between cinema, abstraction, and imagination.

Reflets Synchrones

Jeremie

A collection of interactive digital artworks designed to blend seamlessly into the world of Crème Brûlée.

#1 Reflection of the Flaming Soul

Step up to the screen and watch yourself transform. Your silhouette becomes living fire — a direct nod to the spirit of Crème Brûlée. Powered by Kinect motion detection.

#2 Fractal Interactive

Move your hands and sculpt a 3D fractal in real time. Take a snapshot of your creation, it'll be waiting for you in an online album after the event. Powered by Kinect hand tracking.

#3 Trippy Mirror

A live webcam feed warped and twisted by psychedelic effects in real time. Equal parts funhouse mirror and digital trip. Powered by integrated webcam.

The Disco Chicken

Jerome

Arrête ton Cirque! may not be setting up camp this year, but they're bringing their crown jewel: a magnificent 2-metre mirror-clad hen, mounted on a dressed trailer that brings her total height to 3 metres.

But she's more than a sculpture — she's a stage. Nestled beneath her is a DJ booth, purpose-built for sunset sets. And that's when she truly comes alive: the dying light catches hundreds of CD shards covering her body, scattering golden reflections across everything around her, while her LEDs flicker on and carry her into the night.

Find her at golden hour. You'll know her when you see her.

L’atelier des rêves

Sébastien

A flat Dibond panel that leaps off the surface, street art in three dimensions, bold colours and depth effects pulling you in before you've even reached for a pen. But this one wants something from you.

Slide your dream into one of the large translucent tubes, like dropping a message into the pipes of an imaginary laboratory where ideas travel freely. Then activate it: a simple anchoring gesture connects your wish to the work, weaving your aspiration into a growing constellation of desires, utopias, and projects contributed by everyone who passed through before you.

By the end of the event, the installation will carry the collective imagination of an entire community : a visible, tangible record of what people dare to dream into existence

Amour, paix, bonheur

Anna

his psychedelic triptych channels the essentials: love, peace, and happiness, Hang out with them long enough and you might feel it too.

Mad Mud Express

Marie & Pierre

A bus stop in the middle of nowhere.

You can wait here until a bus show up. Or may it not?

Jungle Mirage

Johann

The woods transformed into a living canvas.

A projector shower the forest in light which you get to play with it. Draw directly onto the trees with your fingers, sculpt laser patterns through the air with a LaserCube controlled from a tablet, or pick up one of the instrument props and watch your gestures bloom into visuals in real time.

The whole setup lives under a small open shelter, free to wander into at any hour.

Collective Dreamin'

Francie

A journey through a series of open spaces, each one framed by a garden arch threaded with fluorescent flowers, portals inviting you deeper into a collective dream. Move through at your own pace. In each space, something waits for you: the sound of wind chimes and drums, small glowing paintings and ribbons of fabric where you can write your dreams, textiles that ask to be touched — soft, rough, fragrant.

Every step inward is a step toward something shared. Your dream enters the path alone. By the end, it has become part of something larger.

Pussy Prints Project

Marius

A collaborative art project celebrating the diversity of vulvas through the oldest printing technique there is: the body itself. Participants are invited to press their vulva or inner thighs (for women and non-binary people who don't have a vulva) onto fabric using paint, creating a unique impression that becomes part of a growing collective artwork. The prints are then hung on a washing line strung between two posts, a colourful, proud, and playful display.

This piece makes visible a part of the human body that is rarely seen, and even more rarely celebrated. Come for the art. Stay for the conversation.

Synatheon - L'usine à rêves (Effigy)

Anthony

We built a strange kind of factory. It runs on imagination. A word, a shape, an intention

Draw closer. Something begins to take form. Fragments of dreams hang suspended, drifting slowly in the wind, brushing against each other, answering one another in silence. Nothing is quite fixed. Nothing is entirely alone.

New dreams arrive. They accumulate. They find their place.

And when the flames come, the factory turns incandescent. Shapes lose their edges. The heavy becomes weightless. The suspended dreams rise, intertwine, and are transformed.

Disco Ball

Jean-Jacques

A cast of two buttocks, lovingly covered in mirror fragments, over 20 hours of work, and worth every one of them.

Framed by phosphorescent flowers and a neon light that pulses and shifts with the music, this piece needs to be hung, plugged in, and admired.

Reflective, cheeky, and completely alive after dark.

Neurème

The brain: "the original dream factory", blown up to monumental scale and made architecture.

Its surface is printed in high definition, the organic texture of its folds hiding surrealist imagery tucked into every curve. You only catch them up close, like thoughts concealed within the matter of thought itself.

Step back: a living structure. Step forward: a world inside a world.

And at night, the neural connections emerge — lit by black light, a web of invisible links made suddenly, startlingly visible.

A reverie between retinal perception and cognitive vertigo.

FLOWER OF LIFE TEMPLE 2.6

ALEXANDRE

Returning and growing.

The Flower of Life Temple, first erected at Crème Brûlée 2024, is being rebuilt for 2026 with a dozen new pillars joining the original eighteen wooden posts. Same soul, wider embrace.

The Temple is one of the oldest traditions of the Burn: a space set apart from the noise, held open for whatever you need to bring to it. Grief, gratitude, intention, silence. No instructions. No wrong way to use it.

Come alone. Come with someone. Come back twice.

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