Pavillon Fuller

“Like a short poetic interlude, a group of amateurs and architecture students assemble the skeleton of Pavillon Fuller, the Catalan artist's latest creation, before our very eyes and under Jordi Galí's caring gaze. Like a team of sailors on the same boat, they pull on the ropes, look at each other, communicate silently and gently as they assemble the structure together, a skeleton of wooden battens lashed together with ropes. It's a little and it's a lot, delicate and impressive. The fins of the pavilion thus erected seem to hold together as if by magic. It conjures up images of the huge Loïe Fuller wings, themselves armed with wooden rods. But the wink is double: we also learn that this pavilion is dedicated to the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, one of the founding fathers of tensegrity, the physical principle that holds everything upright through the interplay of balancing forces. A fine metaphor for Jordi Galí's work, which brings together the ephemeral and creates a delicate event.

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“Pupils and teachers carried a wooden structure at arm's length and raised it in a collective effort; the structure, flat on the ground, was then transformed by its elevation into a three-dimensional sculpture; a work of art imagined by Catalan artist Jordi Galí, invited by La Rampe. Principal Emmanuelle Cernet Abaibou explains: “It's a participative project that involved first and second year industrial maintenance students. It wasn't easy at first, but Jordi Galí managed to get them involved in the project. (...) A history teacher agrees: “It helped to break down distances between students and teachers and create new, authentic relationships."