451 sheets of mesh compose floating chromatic field by tomislav topić inside french chapel

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

reshaping the perception of depth

the piece introduces a contemporary, weightless counterpoint to the chapel’s heavy stone volumes

installed after more than a year of research and five days of on-site assembly | image via @topic_tomislav

ECHOVERSE appears like a slow-moving gradient frozen mid-flow | image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav

sheets of mesh overlap into bands of violet, red, orange, and blue | image via @topic_tomislav

the layers catch and refract the ambient light | image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav

the material is almost imperceptibly thin, allowing the color fields to hover with softness

the timber ceiling becomes a canopy for a contemporary gradient | image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav

shifting saturation as daylight threads through the historic stained-glass windows

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Topić chose the title ECHOVERSE for its layering of meaning | image via @topic_tomislav 

viewers move beneath the installation | image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav

small shifts in angle produce new readings of the same elements

the suspended modules trace a loose wave | image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav

echoing the artist’s interest in rhythm and visual sound | image via @topic_tomislav 

image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav

image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav

image by @krnschwtz.studio via @topic_tomislav

image via @topic_tomislav 

project info:

name: ECHOVERSE

artist: Tomislav Topić | @topic_tomislav

location: chapel at Centre d’art Les 3 CHA | @centredart_les3cha, Châteaugiron, France

dates: October 11th – December 14th, 2025