Bell Pavilion
BELL PAVILION
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
ARCHITECTS
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
AUTHOR
Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen
CLIENT
Christian Boltanski
PRODUCTION
Solo Galerie, Christian Bourdais, Eva Albarran
CONSTRUCTOR
Jacky Cremona, So.Ré.Bat S.A.
COLLABORATION
Diego Perez, Teresa Freire, Shota Nemoto
PHOTOGRAPHS
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Marc Domage
AREA
50 m²
YEAR
2017
LOCATION
Vitry-sur-seine, France
CATEGORY
Pavilion
Text description provided by architect.
This is a room for a continuous video projection, for the documentation of a monumental but fragile installation made by Christian Boltanski in the Atacama Desert.
With two concentric cylinders and two tunnel-like extensions, this sculptural piece is meant to erode its own figure in order to re-enact an inner landscape.
It is a dimly lit, opaque and seamless chamber, rough enough so as to evoke the original distant place where the installation was recorded.
The radius of the smallest cylinder is, in fact, defined both by a fine-tuned equipment and by the precise distance of an observer immersed in the projected image.
The other cylinder, as a consequence of the reversible path to go from outside to outside, might be read as a leftover of the inner corner in which the recorded landscape is projected.
It is somehow difficult to understand how a small building can contain a massive landscape in its modest entrails. Here, what seems to be a defensive gesture towards the surrounding garden is no other than a haven for the devious and fleeting overlap between reality and fiction.
