"It goes on and on"

We have known Paul Schumacher for half an eternity, which means that we are probably the only ones who still sometimes call him Schumi. We're both the same age and have met him at concerts, techno raves and art openings from time to time over the past few decades.

The fact that we are meeting on the Place d'Armes in the capital and not in his studio in the Differdange Creative Hub 1535° (which is where our photographer was the next day) is due to the fact that a video mapping project by the artist is currently on show here, around the Dicks-Lentz monument on Square Jan Palach. In mapping, surfaces such as the façades of buildings are used for video projections and staged, which is usually very spectacular.

Melting Pol's current project is named after the "magic lantern", a projection device that was first used 365 years ago, as Paul Schumacher explains. "The idea for this project came to me at the cinema museum in Turin. The magic lantern was also a kind of trompe-l'oeil, which fits in well with my video mapping project, in which I used artificial intelligence to edit symbolic photos of the city of Luxembourg that I received from the Photothèque."

We are particularly pleased that one of the images used includes the former Eldorado cinema on Place de la Gare, as this is where we enthusiastically held hands with one of our first love interests – unfortunately we can't remember the film in question, but it could have been Porky's. The Journal now also has its premises at the same location, although the Eldorado and the neighbouring Ciné Europe have long since been demolished.