Press release
ROCHE, DSV & Sie
architects
April 28 – September 8, 1996
ROCHE, DSV & Sie
is a group of architects - François Roche, Gilles
Desèvedavy and Stéphanie Lavaux - whose approach fits into a
comprehensive process: the production of a project within an existing context.
Their show at MAGASIN takes the form of a “floating cloth“ - a
sort of hanging, translucent cloud which filters the light and subtly alters
the way we perceive the place.
PAYSAGE N°5
“A floating skyline“ - a watershed between two adjacent
places. A plastic “jellyfish“ made of see-through PVC, which interferes
with the perception of the steel girders, and provides a roof over the emptiness
of the “rue“ (Street), central space of the building. It is a panoptic
street, where everything is on view, a priori, and where the eye merges what
is near and what is far, and confuses th espace of the picture rails with Eiffel’s
structures. And where this street is concerned, it is up to us to set this
superposition at a distance, and in perspective, in a sort of retinal depth
of field, a lens of spatial accuracy.
As a result of the installation of a distorting,
blurred cloud, the eye can no longer adapt to the distance, and the street
can at last find its autonomy, by becoming… a situational act.
Under
this skin swollen with hot air, there are “split seconds“ to
be grasped: tables, chairs, sofas, bed, little pieces of home, not yet unpacked,
awaiting the appropriation of furniture tenants and one or two “live“ performances.
The “material“ transparency
of the plastic offers a territorial and functional bond. Architecture also
applies to this…
A “waltz“ is served - a mixture of beer
and peppermint. Gastronomy has yet to come.”
Detail :
- 350M2 of PVC
- 4 pre-packaged environments (13 chairs,
3 sofas, 3 beds, 3 tables, and 30 cushions)
- a video made with Philippe
Rahm
- beer and mint together