Jaemo Lee

La chambre des oiseaux
The Mediterranean sky envelops the walls, whilst on a carpet evoking the Cubist Garden, a laid table and chairs that seem to grow like trees take their place. On the ceiling, the silhouette of a bird floats, and the wall shelves and clock trace the rhythm of other forms of existence.
The Reception Room recalls the beings that already occupied this place before the building was erected on the hillside, and captures the fleeting moment of an encounter with birds through an open window. The interior is no longer exclusively a human territory. Beneath the soft light of the Mediterranean climate, the boundary between inside and outside softens, allowing presences to cross paths and seep through.
The surrealist idea of the «bird room» takes root in the legacy of the Villa Noailles. The Surrealists, in close relationship with the Noailles couple, explored the overlapping of the real and the imaginary by blurring the boundaries between architecture, art, and everyday life. A symbolic being situated between sky and earth, reality and dream, the bird is frequently invoked at the heart of these experiments.
The Reception Room weaves together the context of the Villa Noailles and the memory of the hillside through the figure of the bird. Rooted in the legacy of Surrealism, this piece opens the field of the imagination alongside another inhabitant of the hillside, and proposes a way of experiencing cohabitation.