SPLIT WINDOW is a series of events and exhibitions scheduled throughout the biennal around an authentic dialogue between Athens and Marseilles. By making the Mediterranean Sea a new axis of European identity, an area of contiguity, the project focuses on the issues of North / South duality inherent to the positioning of SISSI, while opening a horizontal space of exchange between East and West. A rare symbolic power emanates from Athens and Marseille. Ancient cities, marked by their history, they anchor their identity and prestige in their antique roots. Cradle of European civilisation for one, oldest French city for the other, they have in common the fact that they are both large trading and transit ports.
They are today, by their spirit of resistance and their « outsiders » image in the contemporary world, real experimental plateforms for the future. Oracular, predictive, even pre-apocalyptic cities, they invite us to think about both the collapse of Western societies and the outreach of marginalised populations.
Opening the 26th of November.
Curated by Elise Poitevin and Anne Vimeux (SISSI).
A proposal by SISSI.
Partner: Beaux-Arts de Marseille.
