Throughout the project: Je suis l’archive 2020, I was working with the Marc Vaux’s collection of image –this catalogue of images is made out of hundred thousand glass-plates that comprise mostly of Montparnasse’s art scene between 20’s and the 1970’s, I began searching for familiar figures from my memories and personal set of references: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, her father Getulio Mario Kala... After having failed to identify figures of African origin, the creative process to work in the spaces of absence created by Vaux’s collection. I found this to be an important opportunity to complement Vaux’s archive, by adding familiar archives such as the Revue Noire (1991-2000), Presence Africaine (1947), photographer Ricardo Rangel (1924-2009), and my personal collection of images.

Je suis l'archive

What is photography if not light? Light shun upon an object in a space. To continue the thought around space, I constructed a structure that would count time, with different levels where various objects (bodies) would be temporarily fixed. 
This round space/architecture has many functions: a photography dispositive, in a studio, a cooling refuge, a classroom, a dining room, a listening space, a space for rituals, between many others…

Constructed in an old industrial plant, with mostly recovered materials- these architecture took the vocabulary of the tent/cabana building principles to heart. 

This installation uses 3 principles: round exterior (for heat, protection, and sound qualities), Democratic points of view, and multiplicity of use for same spaces (reinterpretation of the ‘traditional’ identity of space). 
In re-imagining this new space for these ‘new’ people (Us), which in the words of Buckminster Fuller “a space that can be built quickly and accommodate many” when referring to the dome. 
Furthermore, engaging with African architecture philosophical approach to life, spirit and body. Seeing space as an ever so changing environment only with bodies activate them. As the utility of our spaces give new meaning to our sleep, play, nurture, and work. 



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