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The new production sites of our accelerated contemporary world, the "dark factories" (or "lights-out factories") are fully automated factories that operate without human intervention. Without even having to light the space, machines can now "work" day and night, without breaks, without compromising the quality of their production. These places with a basic architecture take the form of large, modular, repetitive warehouses where everything is designed to facilitate the movement of robots. The 3D printers, present in the room, are working relentlessly to build structures that are directly inspired by these intelligent factories. These architectures under construction show their skeleton, stripped of everything. We do not know if we are in front of the framework of these buildings or on the contrary in front of their ruin. Work in progress, the printer becomes, in the words of the artist, "the main actor" of the project, it takes its place. The idea of these cold, geometric, massive architectures is counterbalanced by the light device that accompanies them, making the installation fragile and moving. The light passes through the skeleton of these structures and deploys grids that intermingle. The shadows are superimposed making the reading of the space difficult. Shadow theater of a disturbing strangeness, the work presents a world without foundations, made of illusions. These dark factories are not the real, they are the image of a world that we do not want to see happen. Fascinated by these new heterotopic architectures, cut off from the human world and supports of the imagination, Thomas Garnier proposes with Taotie an immersive installation which aims at questioning these new time-spaces of work and production. Can machines live without us in the dark?