Clémentine Debaere-Lewandowski

Operosa Antra
Operosa Antra – the elaborate grotto – is a place of inner exploration within the refuge that is a villa.
Conceived between the built space and the garden, the Operosa Antra emerges where the boundary between topographia and topothesia disappears. The imagination is called upon to blossom, interpreting shadows, lines, shapes and symbols in the rocks and objects around us, creating new narratives.
In this cavern, each relief is a rock print made in situ on the Mediterranean coast. The filtered light, shimmering with half-light, gradually reveals the contours, encouraging us to read the silent writing borrowed from geological forms. Is it the dawning dawn or the soothing twilight that illuminates this secret universe?
Objects lie on the ground, silent witnesses to a lost ritual. Their contours seem familiar, but there is no evidence of any utilitarian function. Are they too fugitives from reality, detached from pragmatic constraints to float in a disquieting strangeness?
This cave, out of time and out of reality, offers a memory of the Mediterranean territory, forged by the mind and preserved in the hollows of the rocks.