Objets Trouvés - particular

When we entered this place, we immediately felt the need to share the great emotions that we were experiencing in this former military factory. Objets trouvés is a catalog of feelings that celebrates a productive and lively place that remained active for over a century.
For three months, the seven hectares over which unfolds the former barracks SMMEP were a land of discovery. Every corner of this immense place has been the subject of an insatiable quest that along the way become a real addiction and that led us to collect the fragments of a life not our own.
With the curiosity and excitement of children making adventurous discoveries in a dusty and musty attic, for us each object symbolizes an achievement and every achievement has become a story.
The story we wish to tell is one of imagination. The objects exhibited are seemingly worthless, but rich with the energy of the men that used them. Their placement has an aesthetic and emotional organization done deliberately in order not to reduce them to a scientific catalog of life lived inside these barracks. Therefore, we invite you into a story that is more similar to a picture book than a history book as a means to provide a personal experience, one that is intimate and reflective.
Furniture, paint, wood, iron, rusted objects, chairs, armchairs, helmets, bottles, light bulbs, posters, postcards, letters, drawings, records, orders and commands, sunglasses, ski equipment, pens, tools, buttons, jackets, shirts, banners and flags, incomprehensible things, old computers, blueprints, diagrams, electrical wires, erotic calendars, radios, graphics, flyers and unknown objects valued for their beauty or for the simple charm of the unknown.
This treasure collected in three months is arranged to convey a sense of confusion, the same confusion experienced by us at the beginning of the search. Instead, the exhibition adopts a method of display that is reassuring and systemic: by color, shape, material, texture and theme. This highlights the aesthetic of the objects, regularizes the space, and facilitates enjoyment.
We bring the public on this fascinating journey between everyday and unknown objects juxtaposed in a manner that gives value to their normalcy – an invitation to a new sublime look at everyday life.