SARRAGAN
Description :
ean Deschamps, man of the heatre, had a dream. He wanted to create scene inside a mountain, thus confronting the spectator to the minerality of Les Baux de Provence. Death stopped him. But the dream went on. Four men digged, without fail, the mountain. In this excavation, a monumental architecture was born : a thousand corridors palace, with gigantic columns, and high rooms. Man and matter made Jean Deschamps’ dream come true. I have envisioned this project as an immersion in this place. I wanted to show the relation between man and matter, but also the difference in scale. Those men are digging the earth, it symbolizes a dream of greatness. The sound is part of the immersion. The Sarragan quarry is the last place where limestone is extracted along undergroud galleries, in the South of France. It was opened a hundred and fifty years ago, and hollowed out by hand, « à l’escoudo » (a quarryman’s hammer, in provençal french). Those images show the scale of the work : 4000 m2, a place of great beauty. Between man and earth, a unique bond is clearly discernible, a metaphor of what we are, of where we come from.