A work from the immersive exhibition designed by students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris at Espace Niemeyer, engaging with the architecture to offer a sensory and poetic experience around love and the memory of the place.
Jumelle, Installation - Sand and structure, 2026 Jumelle is an installation based on the duplication of an existing form. Like twins originating from the same cell, the work explores the emergence of an entity from a shared origin. By reproducing a cement column already present in the space with a second column made of sand, the artist establishes a dialogue between similarity and difference, identity and alteration. The project is part of a personal reflection on twinhood, informed by the artist’s own experience as an identical twin. It questions notions of resemblance, origin, and transformation: what distinguishes a double from its model? At what point does a variation appear? The installation also engages in a study of materials. Cement, stable and structural, contrasts with sand, fragile and evolving. This material tension evokes gradual transformations, particularly through the partial erosion of the sand column over time. Adamantia Selekou (born in 2002 in Athens) explores the notion of devotion through different mediums. A graduate of Parsons School of Design (New York), she is currently studying Fresque & Art en situation at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her artistic practice is rooted in everyday life, particularly through cooking, using different materials and processes as forms of offering. STUDENTS OF THE FRESQUE & ART EN SITUATION PROGRAM AT THE ÉCOLE NATIONALE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS / Falando de Amor A project co-produced as part of an educational partnership with the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, with the participation of Espace Niemeyer.
Source: paris.fr — photo: © Adamantia Selekou, AI-generated sketch