Ghost City

With the large installation Cité-Fantôme, Pia Rondé and Fabien Saleil develop a space to be approached both physically and mentally, to be crossed as a narrative, by the visitor solicited choreographically, by the movements of his body and his experience. It is an integral part of the work by activating it by its walk and its detours, to the rhythm of its steps, forking to better locate in the meanders. Thus, he becomes the actor of a space made up of glass plates assembled in a pavement fragmented on the ground, but also of plates erected as openings or dead ends. Everything is shadow and light, transparency and penumbra sculpted with projected silhouettes.

This "projection" is to be taken according to a double meaning: projection of light in the cinematographic sense of the term, like a magic lantern; but also projection of plans in the architectural sense; Between poetry and structure, wandering and fantasy. It must be understood that this is, in volume, only one and only drawing, a dream drawing as if it were an impossible framing to achieve, but nevertheless perceptible by the multiplicity of points of view of those who cross it. In other words: we are captives of a dream, the space of a lived journey.

Thus, the labyrinth and the maze, universal and archaic forms, are experienced as metaphors for a journey based on detours and sinuosities. We know well, in all cultures, the various forms of the labyrinth and its spiritual connotations, which touch on unprecedented paradoxes: an organization of chaos, a progression by slowness or regression, a constructive disorientation; and a confusion that produces meaning, the unknown, as well as knowledge.