Book of the exhibition

COURTYARD SIDE OF PARIS – THE CITY BEHIND THE CITY

(Paris côté cours – La ville derrière la ville)

1998

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Turn your head, take a few steps and find yourself on the other side of the mirror. Leave the city of triumphant street and expanded skies to penetrate the thick of things.
Enter Paris, courtyard side.
Check the capacity of simple words such as courtyard, garden, city, hamlet, villa, porch, hall, to build this woven complexity of air and matter, shade and light, past and perhaps future.
Measure the intelligence that this city has put to settle its partitions, arbitrate its conflicts, manage its supplies, seek its horizons and distribute its pleasures. To interrogate, to finish this Paris of the cunning spaces, secret gardens and clever volumes.