In the core of the Abbey Church of Montmajour, in this majestic volume stripped of its choir, Eva Jospin designed a cenotaph, a tribute monument to the deceased. This three-floors-tall brown tower is composed of different layers of sculpted cardboard veined with sheets of coloured paper. Its style recalls the 18th century capriccios – pictorial fantasies depicting authentic buildings placed in imaginary landscapes – but reverses the principle, since it is a work invented in an ancestral setting. Designed like a chimera, the Cenotaph incorporates architectural, organic, mineral and plant forms. The rock itself seems to proliferate over the elements, like the troglodytic nature of the abbey hermitage and the adjacent rupestrian cemetery. Through its immersive character, the work pays a contemporary tribute to a place where time has done its work and overlayed its history in the stone, in the depths of a resolutely sovereign nature.
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A proposal by Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN).
Partners : Ministère de la Culture.
