Joseph Melka et Balthazar Auguste-Dormeuil

Spot stages a collision between landscape and interior, reframing the domestic environment as a constructed shoreline. The Mediterranean is not represented literally but rendered as an affective ecology : filtered light through a suspended screen, a stone-molded platform for soft seating, reconfigured leisure objects in recycled plastic, and a synthetic fragrance blending sea salt, sunscreen, and chicha smoke.
By working on the abstraction of domestic typologies – seating, lighting, mass-produced objects – the installation places them as sensory interfaces. Domesticity is seen as a contingent element, emerging from tactile interaction and shared rituals. As if resting on a rocky shore, the space resists the attribution of a specific function and welcomes temporary occupants.
By questioning the neutrality of leisure and integrating it into ecological reality, comfort becomes critical. Recycled plastics and synthetic atmospheres highlight the tension between environmental degradation and everyday habits, implicating the domestic sphere in wider systems of extraction, consumption and affective regulation.
Through these layered gestures, Spot emerges as both noun and verb : a site of habitation and the act of recognizing form as possibility – of spotting something familiar, comforting or necessary within a fragment of artificial landscape.

PROJECT REALISED WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
Pierre Frey, Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp, Pastel Services

Guest artists:
Lucie Labrouche, Oscar Lachaud