
Creation date: 2025
Sound design: Santiago Vilanova – ©Playmodes Studio
BEYOND
by Playmodes (ES)
Beyond is the gateway to the exhibition — an immersive audiovisual installation that explores the relationships between space, time, and perception. Its geometric architecture turns the environment into a vector of light and sound, staging the collision of opposing forces: interior and exterior, darkness and light, life and death. Using custom made software, the artists generate waves of light and sound that surge through this 19-meter-long tunnel.
Beyond explores visual and auditory perspective. A series of speakers positioned along the tunnel reinforces this sense of depth through sound. By amplifying spatial perception through an audiovisual approach, the installation challenges and redefines these concepts, drawing the viewer into an experience of“travel without movement.”
Playmodes is a digital creation studio founded in 2006 by Eloi Maduell and Santi Vilanova. Using light and sound as raw materials, the duo experiments with impossible forms at the crossroads of art, science, philosophy, music, and technology. From light sculptures and celestial projections to the sound design of minerals, the studio brings ideas to life through meticulous soldering and lines of code. Driven by a raw, minimalist, and abstract language, their work is crafted by hand using tools and software developed by the artists themselves.
For nearly 20 years, Playmodes’ physical and musical works have been exhibited in Shanghai, New York, Amsterdam, and Medellín, among other cities.