Des corps dans la ville
Architectures, Féminismes et Espaces Construits
Curation with Janus Lafontaine Carboni, Mahé Cordier-Jouanne, Louise Duplan, Anna Kern, Anne Labroille, Benjamin Moron-Puech and Léa Mosconi.
Scenography with Lina Jaïdi
Maison de l’Architecture Île-de-France
2022
The exhibition Bodies in the City: Architectures, Feminisms and Constructed Spaces explores how a feminist approach to both analyzing and producing space can help foster environments that welcome a diversity of bodies and sexualities. Structured in two chapters, the first offers a historical and legal overview of power structures at work in the built environment, as well as the practices that have resisted them throughout the 20th century to the present. The second chapter showcases a series of constructed interventions that open up possibilities for alternative urban experiences. It is organized around four core activities of daily life: moving, subsisting, working, and making space.
The scenography extends these questions into the very space of display. Conceived as five distinct figures, each element invites a specific interaction. The exhibition underscores how architecture organizes bodies and produces behaviors, calling attention to how space can include or exclude—and how it might be reimagined for greater care for multiple subjectivities and bodies.
The project was commissioned by the Maison de l’Architecture Île-de-France. Photographs : © Camille Lemonnier. Construction : majo ébénisterie, Jonas Delanglade Gehring