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The corridor unfolds in four sequences, each treating oil and energy data through a distinct aesthetic and sensory register.

Each sequence responds to the visitor's presence. Their movements are detected, they are given a visual signature, and the installation builds itself around them in real time.

In Diagram, bars of coloured light represent 50 years of global crude oil production. As the visitor moves forward, the dates shift, countries appear and quantities fluctuate.

In Ai.rport, the corridor becomes an international terminal where the kerosene consumed per flight is displayed in real time in the language of departure boards.

In Rain, it is raining. The visitor's footsteps reveal circular ripples at body height, as if walking through a puddle. At the heart of some ripples, a raw data point appears: a country, a year, a quantity of oil consumed.

In Poetic Data, technical reports undergo automated processing that extracts their latent vocabulary and distils it into haiku-like fragments. The bureaucratic and the lyrical face each other in the same corridor.

Throughout the sequences, small LED strips pulse with points of light, evoking binary code and the logic of punched cards: a reminder that every image, every word and every piece of data on these walls is computation made visible.

The installation relies on a tracking system that follows the position and movement of visitors in real time along the whole corridor. The visitor's physical progress through the corridor becomes the playhead of a 50-year data timeline. When they stop, the data freezes. When they move on, it evolves.