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Léa Mosconi

I make hypotèse, in this work, that doubt is the only posture

that can face the issues posed by the emergence of consider-

ations for ecology, and the collapse of modern values. Doubt-

ing on the invincibility of modernity, doubting on the dissociation

of nature and society, of human and nonhuman, of earth and sky.

I therefore erect a monument to this doubt. I designed a place

that enables the individuals to find themselves in vibration with

theyr environment, whether natural, human or urban. I chose

to work on a site close to both institutional and administra-

tive center of a big city and meadows of an evocation of nature.

The island seemed to be an interesting subject. Indeed, the island back

to utopia is a special place, central and isolated where the feelings are

amplified. The tips of the islands are particularly interesting since they are

subject more strongly to the river, the wind, the isolation. They are not0

places you go through but where you stay. I therefore chose to explore the

tip of the island Saint Louis, in Paris, at the location of the square Barye.

This monument of the doubt seeks to examine the question of sacred, its

meaning, its value and status in the environmental awareness context.

This peak belongs to the center of Paris bounding and look-

ing to the expansion of the city. The bridge of Austerlitz, over

seven hundred meters from the edge, reinforces isolation.

The challenge of this project is to work on feeling and perception in order

to achieve a place that puts man in an awareness of his environment, in

the broadest sense. To be more precise, a place which allows hybridiza-

tion of these environments : human, urban, natural, symbolic, social. It is

through this mechanism that this place evokes and celebrates the doubt.

The abstraction, rigor, insurance and monumentality of the stairs

and forecourt confront the unpredictability of natural elements.

monument of the doubt

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Post-postmodern, digital print, 29.7 x 42cm on 300g paper, three numbered copies, 2009

We seek to develop feelings of tension and calm anxiety. Depend-

ing on the rising waters, the square becomes distorted, and de-

creases until it disappears, leaving only the stairs falling into the

water. This place is reassuring and suddenly becomes vulnerable.

The arrival at Shrine is a three sequences walk. We

cross the top square, the stairs, place of transition and

the bottom square for contemplation, silence phase.

Inside the staircase is the Shrine, the sacred place. The entrance reveals

three sequences, the crossing of the input, through the forest of poles, to get

in front of the staircase facing the wall of light, precisely drilled, reflecting.

If I sought to clarify this question of doubt over an architectural pro-

posal, it is also through a series of drawings and a video that I tried

to capture the doubt. When we invaded the complexity of future situ-

ations, vulnerability reminds us a past who thought itself invincible.

Coupe AA

photographs from the video disappearance, 8’32, scores of Basque, 2011

Monument of the doubt, digital print, 29.7 x 42cm on 300g paper, three numbered copies, 2010

Léa Mosconi - Dossier pour la Casa Velazquez - Un monument du doute - mai 2012 - Page 7/12

The doubt to the imaginary, polyptych, pastel, 13 x 19cm, 2009-2012

Léa Mosconi - Dossier pour la Casa Velazquez - Un monument du doute - mai 2012 - Page 7/12The doubt to the imaginary, polyptych, pastel, 13 x 19cm, 2009-2012

monument and the sea, pastel, 13 x 19cm, 2009

the monument, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2010

grid, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

over, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

prisoners, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

away, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

also, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

together, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2010

waiting, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

inside, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2010

fragile, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

lost, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2012

middle, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2012

infinite, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

masses, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2012

the city and the sea, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2012

a colossus with feet of clay, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2012

far, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2012

vulnerable, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

alone, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2012

the gate and the territory, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2012

submerged, pastels, 13x 19cm, 2011

dark, pastel, 13x 19cm, 2011

installation of the exhibition architecture and imaginary at the Beaux-arts

the exhibition architecture and imaginary at the Beaux-arts

the exhibition architecture and imaginary at the gallery of crous

the exhibition architecture and imaginary at the gallery of crous

the exhibition architecture and imaginary at the gallery of crous

the exhibition architecture and imaginary at the gallery of crous

the exhibition architecture and imaginary at the galery of crous