Cabin Fever by Hugo Langlade
Hugo Langlade’s practice explores how images, systems, and architectures shape perception within contemporary cultures of consumption, media, and technological progress. Working across installation, sculpture, and sound, he examines how visibility is constructed and how ecological realities are often experienced at a distance.
Cabin Fever brings together three works — Hublots, Out, and Summer Jet 2 — forming a multisensory installation that reflects on ecological responsibility within systems of mobility, consumption, and spectacle.
In Hublots, a series of porthole-like windows made from wood, Plexiglas, LED systems, and condensation, viewers are invited to look through controlled apertures. Condensation forms as a result of environmental imbalance, making atmospheric conditions physically perceptible while reinforcing distance.
The smoke sculpture Out, inspired by ventilation systems, emits vapor reminiscent of industrial exhaust and theatrical effect. Summer Jet 2, shaped as an extractor hood, combines video, light, and sound, juxtaposing tourism imagery with footage of environmental disaster.
Sustainability is embedded through reused materials, low-energy systems, and modular construction, while the work critically reflects on the infrastructures that sustain contemporary lifestyles.
Through the convergence of image, sound, light, and vapor, Cabin Fever creates a sensory environment that challenges passive observation and foregrounds the tension between visibility and responsibility.
About Hugo Langlade
Hugo Langlade is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Geneva whose practice moves between installation, sculpture, and music. Influenced by internet imagery, he works with layered images in which the notion of visibility is always central.
His projects explore how images circulate, solidify, and transform within contemporary systems of consumption, control, and mediatization. The notion of transparency occupies a central place in his work, understood both as a physical phenomenon and as a symbolic value linked to visibility, access, and communication. By creating a tension between opacity and clarity, it questions the act of looking as an ambiguous space where social, political, and ecological issues unfold.
“By translating ecological responsibility into a multisensory, embodied experience, my work makes innovation and sustainability perceptible—turning invisible systems into tangible encounters that prompt awareness, care, and change.”
Hugo Langlade
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