1XUnknown (The Atlantik Wall, Quiberville)

The project collects short videos of monoliths taken along the Atlantic Wall (1940-1944), a line of about 15,000 fortifications built across the European Atlantic coast for the purposes of defending Fortress Europe. "1XUnknown was born when I started looking for habitable sculptures, of permanent pavilions that, although belonging to the landscape, manifested as separate volumes, clear as a judgment and distinguished as a political entity. I looked for volumes that occupied the space with the same force and substance as the masses of demonstrators occupy our monuments: organization and dispersion. When I intercept part of the French segment of the Atlantic Wall defensive line (1940-1944) I do not find the remains, the ruins, nor historical evidence, but figures." Margherita Moscardini