Alexander Scriabin wasn’t just a composer—he saw himself as a prophet of a new world, with music as the key to transformation. For him, the senses were everything: only through intense, conscious experience could humanity reach true ecstasy. With each symphony, he pushed the boundaries further. His Fifth — The Poem of Fire — became a heady fusion of sound, mysticism, and colour: a swirling, ritualistic vision of music as pure experience.

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“I am a moment illuminating eternity, I am affirmation, I am ecstasy.”– Alexander Scriabin

Le Poème du feu work calls for a large orchestra, women’s choir, piano, and—well ahead of its time—a colour organ to project light in sync with the music. Scriabin never saw that dream fully realised, but he left the door wide open for others to imagine what it could be. Now, at the invitation of the Brussels Philharmonic, Nazanin Fakoor brings that vision to life—not only for The Poem of Fire, but also for Debussy’s shimmering La Mer.

Beyond the Score

For the concert Le Poème du feu, Nazanin Fakoor transforms her installation Rainbow into a light sculpture that floats above the orchestra. Slowly rotating mirror panels catch the light and cast it into the concert hall. Projected images break apart on the mirrors and drift through the space like scattered fragments. Together they form a kaleidoscope of light, colour, and movement, in dialogue with the music of Scriabin and Debussy. [read more]

Nazanin Fakoor is an Iranian-German multi-disciplinary artist and director based in Brussels. Her visual installations and performances are worlds that the spectator can enter and influence. Through her work, she explores utopian possibilities at the intersection of recognition and alienation, aesthetics and social issues, and reality and possibility, blending video, performance, and installation with light, sound, movement and music.