QRegardless of their location on the European continent, our museums, theaters, art centers and festivals overlook the Mediterranean Sea. Our institutions overlook this cradle of our civilization, a space for the invention of our writings and their endless crossbreeding, a place of memory of the texts, songs and breaths running through so many works that today we share.
The squares which lead to our buildings overlook the high seas and the incessant shipwrecks that it experiences, and there is not a single one of our scenes which has not recently made the scale and scope of this tragedy resound. , one of the most deaf and terrifying of present times.
But, even more fundamentally, there is not a single one of our specifications that does not almost literally state the promise that, on this maritime horizon, things are quite different: we assume as a public service mission, through support to the incessant renewal of creation, the perpetuation of the civilizational fact, that is to say of everything that connects us.
This “sea between the lands”
This is one of the singularities of our architecture: here, the doors do not want to keep any otherness at bay, but open wide onto the humanity that we all have in common. This is what makes the places for which we are responsible an imperative necessity: nothing other than the works, whether written, danced, exhibited, sung, projected, performed, told, carries this vital ambition of make us breathe together, whatever our origins and the ideas we have of our destinations.
So undoubtedly each of these works reminds us of the Mediterranean Sea, this “sea between the lands”, this expanse which connects the shores with infinite beauty, this horizon which makes us breathe. That death unfolds like a program annihilates everything we carry and what carries us.
A collective presents itself to us today with, in its arms, the 100th modele of a ship and, in mind, the idea that we could support its creation on a 1/1 scale, and then together inaugurate this 69 meter long catamaran one fine day in 2025.
it’s about the model of Future Ship, first ship in a global high seas rescue fleet, a pioneering intervention tool designed in particular with rescue sailors, survivors, caregivers, architects, lawyers, researchers and students from art, design and architecture schools. Whole Europe [qui doit être présenté le 18 octobre sur la piazza du Centre Pompidou à Paris].
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