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.
Carrousel, honeycomb cardboard, inkjet prints, metal, rotating mechanism, 2026. The Carrousel as a metaphor for life and its perpetual motions, its ups and downs, that alternation of joy and unease that runs through us all. Love is part of it, but so are fear, desire, grief, and the absurd. What turns and what remains still answer one another: on one side, ceaseless movement; on the other, an unfolded presence, an expansion into space. The project was born from a reflection on life and its contradictions, on this coexistence of the joyful and the unsettling, the trivial and the serious. The carousel emerged as an obvious form, a universal object rooted in childhood and pleasure, yet containing something dizzying. It rises and falls, spins without stopping, carrying everything along with it without distinction. Carrousel is an installation composed of a kinetic sculpture and a set of large-format silhouettes arranged in the surrounding space. The carousel, made of cardboard, animates an assortment of eclectic figures that turn, rise, and fall continuously throughout the night: everyday objects, symbols of death, play, and the living. Around it, these same figures unfold at large scale in the space, motionless, as if escaped from the movement. Nina Fiorentini is a French-Italian artist, born in Paris in 1999, a 2025 graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and currently in the Filière Fresque & Art en situation. Working across photography, installation, and in situ interventions, she explores how images inhabit and transform space. Her playful practice works with distortion, shifts in scale, and the viewer’s movement, blending childhood, absurdity, and motorized devices to set the image in motion. 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 FILIÈRE FRESQUE & ART EN SITUATION OF THE ÉCOLE NATIONALE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS / Falando de Amor
Source: paris.fr — photo: ©Nina Fiorentini