PARIS.- Yann Kersalé is an artist who uses light as others use clay or paint. For thirty years, he has been experimenting with new light forms and has created his own “light material”, allowing for a new reading of architecture and urban and natural landscapes. For Yann Kersalé, night is a “black material/substance” that enables him to uncover a powerful palette of whites and greys, forms, hollows and bumps, shadow and light. The EDF Foundation has taken a particular interest in the work of Yann Kersalé and has supported him for the past seventeen years. The Foundation devoted a first exhibition to the artist in the Foundation Cultural Centre in 1994. The Foundation also supported him for projects such as the Cahors Spring Festival in 1996, the “illumination” of the Saint‐Denis Basilica in 1999, as well as the garden of the Quai Branly Museum in 2005. The exhibition opened by the EDF Foundation Cultural Centre through 4 March 2012 is the culmi