Palmarès

Valentin Bayoud
France

AQUA PRIMITIVA
Une expérience spatiale réinterprétant l’archétype du foyer.

The hearth is arguably one of the most archaic forms of human spatial organization. Structuring both social and domestic life around fire, it fulfilled fundamental needs: warmth, light, and protection. It was also a symbolic place, a centre where people gathered around the fire, the element that made
the rise of humanity possible. As resources become increasingly scarce and precious, the installation offers a space for contemplation. The circular form asserts itself through its geometric logic: placing each individual at an equal distance from the centre, it abolishes all spatial hierarchy.
Far removed from that presumed primitive state, human needs are now being reshaped by social and technological transformations.
Fire no longer occupies the structuring role it once held in collective life. At the heart of the installation, visitors gradually discover the resource that, more than any other, now shapes our future. Rooted in a phenomenological approach, the project engages the senses to create an experience subtly anchored in the context of Hyères, while highlighting natural materials and traditional craftsmanship. Visitors are invited to sit before the element placed at the centre of the installation and take part in a moment of reflection. By activating different layers of memory, both personal and collective, the project seeks to encourage meditation on our relationship with this essential and fragile common good: water.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
ALLIANCE DU LIN ET DU CHANVRE EUROPÉENS, TERRE DU MONDE, FLIPTS & DOBBELS, OPERASIERRA, QUAND PARLENT LES PIERRES FFPPS
CARRESOL, PETRA PATRIMONIA, TERRAMANO, DARK MATTER, BM PRODUCTION, OOM GLASS, KREON, HYPERSENSE, VALENTIN BAYOUD ARCHITECTURE
& DESIGN, CARTEL DE BELLEVILLE, MERCADIER

Blanche Mijonnet
FRANCE

Carlotta Lagazzi & Yohann Hubert
FRANCE - ITALY

Overflowed
Starting from the observation that waste in pleasure boating is too often overlooked, the installation stages a resting space for sailors on land, watching the sea from this stationary “liner”: the villa Noailles, designed by Mallet-Stevens. Overflowed echoes Franco Cassano’s meridian thinking, which
counters speed and accumulation with a culture of measure, slowness and autonomy ; values equally central to the imaginary and the practices of Mediterranean navigation.
Made from wrecks and abandoned boat parts, it enacts a symbolic displacement: these fragments take to the sea once more, no longer on salt water, but on oneiric, imaginary and affective flows. Like sailors, they carry within them the memory of departure, waiting and the horizon.
A hull, a reimagined daybed, floats above the ground and allows one to lie down and contemplate the ceiling, where a luminous scale chandelier unfolds.
Organised around a mast section, it spreads like a great indoor kite. Its vanes, held taut by ropes, secure it to the walls and ensure its seemingly precarious stability. The object seems held in a fragile equilibrium, oscillating between anchorage and drift.
Assembly and handling techniques borrow directly from nautical vocabulary: knots, fittings, tensioning and securing systems, textures and technical textiles.
These devices evoke navigation without locking it into literal representation.
The machine is transformed: identifiable in its origin, yet open in its destination.

DE WITH THE SUPPORT OF
ATELIER AKAL - ANIS SAOUDI, MARYLIS TRÂN THÊ TRI, LA VOILERIE DES ÎLES, MIMOSAILS, LEEM / BC MATERIALS, C.V.B.M CENTRE MUNICIPAL, DE
VOILE DE TOULON, LA TRIBU MARITIME - RESSOURCERIE NAUTIQUE, FRANCK DEMUN FERRONERIE, CLUB DE VOILE DE BORMES LES MIMOSAS, LAPSO
CRÉATIONS, TIMOTHÉE RAVIOL, GRÉGOIRE CHAUVET, WBI
ARTISTES INVITÉS INVITED ARTISTS
MARIANNA LADREYT, JOSÉPHINE ZITTA

Simon Searle et Victoire Lesthevenon
FRANCE

L’Observatoire
Espace de contemplation

The observatory, open to the landscape of the villa Noailles, blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior, inviting contemplation of the rhythms of the Mediterranean territory.
Rooted in the Var region, the color palette derived from local resources is a living phenomenon, evolving with time and light through the sensitivity of plantbased dyes. Materials and colors thus become sensitive surfaces, capable of recording the passage of time.
The proportions of this indoor cabin are drawn from the geographical and meteorological data of the Var (topography, sunlight, prevailing winds, rainfall) and help anchor the project in its environment. The living area thus becomes a space for mindfulness, where structure, material, and landscape engage in dialogue to offer a porous way of living and observing the outdoors.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
ALLIANCE DU LIN ET DU CHANVRE EUROPÉENS, CHRISTOPHE BELANDO, GREEN’ING INGREDIENTS NATURELS & SERVICES, BRUN DE VIAN-TIRAN
BEAUFORT STUDIO, AGGLOLUX - CBL, L’ENSCI - LES ATELIERS, JULIETTE EUGÉNIE, CAMILLE LABOURIER, SARAH LOLLEY, EVA BODIN, ANJA MATIČIČ,
LOUISE DURET, BAPTISTE GUYON