Artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot glowing over National Gallery of Victoria soundscape French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot is creating a huge pond filled with ceramic plates in the National Gallery of Victoria's atrium. Picture: Tess Follett Source: Herald Sun A MOAT has always surrounded the National Gallery of Victoria on St Kilda Rd. Now it has an indoor pool. Titled "clinamen," it glows blue in the gallery's atrium to signal the arrival of the blockbuster exhibition, Monet's Garden. But water is not the only attraction. Crockery drifts across the surface of "clinamen," and when gentle currents get these white porcelain bowls clinking, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot creates a changing, chiming soundscape. "To give pleasure to people is very important," the French artist-composer said today. That pleasure can be superficial and at the same time, very deep. Renowned for creating large-scale installations inspired by the rhythms of everyday life, Boursier-Mougenot has taken years to perfect the percussive sound of "clinamen." "My work can be light and dark," he said. This is my sunny side. And has Claude Monet been an inspiration ? Absolutely...I love his work. So abstract and so beautiful at the same time. Celeste Boursier-Mougenot: clinamen opens tomorrow. Monet's Garden opens on May 10.