Black and Blue. A Mediterranean dream
According to the historians Horden and Purcell, the fragmentation of the Mediterranean area into ‘micro-regions’ has played a key role in the interactions that have taken place in the Mediterranean over the course of history. Their thesis can be summed up in three words: ‘Diversity in uniqueness’.
This diversity in uniqueness has proved to stimulate exchanges between neighbours both near and far, and is the fundamental precept of the scenographic proposal. The translation of which consists of hanging an imaginary palace composed of a series of rooms in which a diversity of work/visitor interfaces is deployed. The line of the horizon structures the overall landscape as seen through the bay windows of the MUCEM building. Our project defines the horizon as the waterline of the suspended palace. The walls of the palace are truncated and, once the visitor is seated, allow the whole exhibition to be perceived in its unity and even beyond, towards the horizon of the sea. This generates a double superimposed spatial dimension with the Daedalian maze of space of the palace visible when standing and the space extending towards the horizon revealed when sitting down.
Project
Temporary exhibition ‘Black and Blue, a Mediterranean Dream’ at the Museum of Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MUCEM)
Location
France, Marseille
Tender
Public
Surface
1 500 m²
Team
Projectiles, architect + museograph + audiovisual (project manager)
Wa75, graphic designer + signage
Abraxas concepts, lighting design
Client
Mucem, Marseille-Provence 2013, Rmn-Grand Palais
Stage
COMPETITION 2012
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