Exhibition Regards du Grand Paris brings together the works of 38 artists who participated in the first five years (2016 to 2021) of the national photographic commission of the same name, entrusted by the French Ministry of Culture to the Ateliers Médicis in partnership with the Cnap.

The exhibition is organized around five spaces that represent five topics and perspectives on the Greater Paris area. They borrow from the vocabulary of everyday life and urbanism. The “street” passes in front of the “monument”, follows the “river”, crosses the “park” and serves the “square”. These five places create a visiting experience with no order, both directed and open-ended, like a walk through the landscape of a metropolis.

1 Entrance｜2 « Street »｜3 « Monument »｜4 « Square »｜5 « River »｜6 « Park »

Roll designed these urban archetypes with the desire to evoke a city in transition. The plywood walls, reminiscent of construction site fences, and the use of construction materials, such as concrete blocks and cargo straps, dialog with the existing concrete architecture of the space. 

These modules are deployed throughout the ground floor of the building and are organized around a central street symbolically linking the old city of Paris and Greater Paris.

Limestone-colored fabrics, reminiscent of the stone of historic Parisian buildings, draw attention and delineate spaces dedicated to visual and sound installations.