Year: 2026
Medium: TouchDesigner
le taxi pour l'avenir heureux is an immersive artwork by Benjamin Sandro Jantzen structured around the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Climate change, quality education, responsible consumption and the other major issues addressed by the 2030 Agenda are transformed into distinct visual worlds, moving away from the didactic language of institutional communication and turning instead towards imagination.
Each of the 17 goals gives rise to its own visual narrative: surreal environments densely populated with figures, objects, architectures and situations, recalling the structure of contemporary Wimmelbilder — images designed to be explored through a multitude of details and micro-stories. The images are generated using artificial intelligence tools, then selected, curated, composed and set in motion by Jantzen, creating a universe in which observation continuously reveals new elements and connections.
The project approaches social, environmental and economic issues through the seductive power of images rather than explanation. Information and imagination become intertwined: the themes of the Sustainable Development Goals are not illustrated literally, but transformed into landscapes that viewers can enter, explore and navigate, constructing their own relationships between what they encounter.
Originally conceived as a monumental façade projection and presented at the Schlosslichtspiele Light Festival in Karlsruhe, where the project received the 2025 dm Award “connecting worlds”, le taxi pour l'avenir heureux is reimagined for MAM as a 360° immersive environment. The imagery extends across the walls and floor, removing the distance that previously separated the viewer from the architectural surface of the original projection.
The transition to an immersive format therefore transforms the relationship between audience and artwork. The image is no longer observed from an external position: the viewer stands within it. Visual worlds surround the audience, while details can emerge simultaneously from different directions. The taxi evoked by the title becomes a metaphor for a journey through seventeen possible dimensions of the future: no longer simply a vehicle to watch as it moves forward, but a space capable of carrying the viewer with it.
