A work from the immersive exhibition designed by students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris at Espace Niemeyer, it enters into dialogue with the architecture to offer a sensory and poetic experience around love and the memory of the place.
In a Landscape, digital and sound installation, 2026 In a Landscape takes over the delegation room of Espace Niemeyer, the headquarters of the PCF in Paris. This project brings to life a personified space, capable of acting on its environment: a fiction in which individuals, drawn into screens, seem suspended outside time. Arranged around a table, these screens are connected by red cables, evoking the arteries of a living organism. Each screen shows a video of imagined landscapes, inspired by Niemeyer's architecture, where silhouettes wander from one screen to another. The red sky, directly borrowed from La Montagne morte de la vie by Michel Bernanos, symbolizes a place that turns every presence into mineral matter, like a mountain hungry for life. The soundtrack, John Cage's In a Landscape, reinforces this atmosphere: contemplative music that contrasts with the strangeness of the images, creating tension between calm and unease. Rachel Borensztejn was born in Paris in 2002. A 2025 graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, she is continuing her training in the Fresque and Art en Situation program. An explorer of images, she draws on her travels, online maps, archives, and 3D models to build a visual archive. Through painting, photomontage, models, and drawing, she examines non-places, modern, anonymous, and abandoned spaces, often erasing the human figure to reveal their strangeness, or slipping in specters, traces of a ghostly presence. Through the fragmentation and hybridization of mediums, she blurs our perception of space and brings out its hidden poetry. Her work, notably exhibited during Contre-espace (Photo Saint-Germain, Beaux-Arts de Paris), was awarded the Bourse Hélène Diamond. At the same time, she enriches her practice with the piano, as a sonic echo of her spaces. 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. STUDENTS OF THE FRESQUE & ART EN SITUATION PROGRAM AT THE ÉCOLE NATIONALE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS / Falando de Amor
Source: paris.fr — photo: ©Rachel Borensztejn