Between textile and infrastructure: flows, care, and adjustment… At the Musée des Egouts.
Installation, Sculpture, Exhibition Membrane urbaine transforms part of the underground galleries of the Musée des Egouts into an interactive environment structured by logics of flow, feedback, and maintenance. The installation consists of several kinetic works and follows a fundamental principle inspired by the very operation of several cleaning tools used in the infrastructure: no external motor is used — all movements are generated either by hydraulic energy or by human action. The whole is accompanied by a soundscape made up of the voices of sewer workers. A 15-meter-long woven gutter is suspended from the ceiling. Each attachment point can be pivoted independently from the ground to raise or lower the gutter and move a ball inside it. The gutter is woven from carbon fiber and a sheet of plastic. A 3 m × 9 m weaving, made of carbon fibers, is displayed beneath the Alma vault. It is suspended by several ropes. One end of each rope is connected to a wheel fixed to the wall. Visitors can activate the installation by turning the wheel. A wheel made of wood and carbon fiber is suspended above the current. A text by writer and filmmaker Jasper Coppes accompanies the installation and offers a narrative framework that highlights the different dimensions addressed by the work: the lived experience of sewer workers, feedback mechanisms, and the circulation of fluids and information. In partnership with Jasper Coppes (curator), as well as Hélène Clerc-Denizot and Léo Baqué for sound and lighting. With support from Stimuleringsfonds, Saertex, Saint-Gobain, Vetrotex.
Admission: Last entry at midnight
Source: paris.fr — photo: Mathild Clerc Veroheven / Pauline Perret