Petites architectures dans le grand paysage

A child's dream, a grown-up's utopia.
A way of living, protecting, inviting, listening...
The tree house evokes an image, a memory, moments of happiness.
It is the primitive shelter, the creative genius, the imprint of a passage.
It belongs to a place, a history. It attracts and guides us.
What does it have to tell us? To show us?

For children, building a tree house means flirting with the limits of reality and imagination. It means building a universe, a world of their own. It's an invitation to an inner journey. It's a refuge for the mind in a fast-paced society, a prism through which to view the world.

The exhibition Petites architectures dans le grand paysage is a collection of habitable wooden sculptures created by artist and architect Julien King-Georges. They act as landscape revealers: you enter them to see, admire and contemplate the outside world.

The essence of this work comes from his childhood in Africa, where, like all the children in the world, African children build huts. These sculptures are not yet architecture. They are the possibility of a shadow. They become so by questioning our way of living, by the ultimate metamorphosis of the original utopia of the project: to become perennial architectures, main or secondary homes, holiday pavilions...

Praising these small things has nothing to do with small is beautiful or any other slogan. No.

It's a frugal approach, a harmonious blend of asceticism and aesthetics.

The exhibition invites visitors to discover this poetic work through photographs, texts and models made by the artist, as well as models made between January and May 2025 at La Fabrique - Rêves de Ville by children in the CM1/CM2 class at the Ardriers school as part of the CLEAC (Contrat Local d'Education Artistique et Culturelle) programme.

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