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Artworks above a low table and cushions in the exhibition at La Corvée Galerie.
La Corvée GalerieParis · 2024

Artists from MENA diasporasCurated by Mat3am ClubLa Corvée Galerie, Paris

In my bathrobe, I wait for the end of the world

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00 / The collaboration

A place to be together.

An exhibition imagined as a space in common.

Mat3am Club is a curatorial collective from the contemporary art world, working with artists from MENA diasporas and cultivating a broader approach to the contemporary Mediterranean art scene.

For this exhibition at La Corvée Galerie, they gathered twelve young artists from the MENA region in France, and approached it as a place for shared stories, imagination and hospitality.

00 / Fouad’s contribution

At this stage, Fouad became involved, helping the collective develop the layout and arrangement of the art pieces and objects in the space in the most optimal way, through a holistic architectural and scenographic perspective.

01 / In plan

Place the works. Leave room for people.

Seen from above, the separate pieces become a shared arrangement. The plan relates the gathering area, floor works and wall displays to the existing room and its staircase.

Top-down exhibition plan showing the staircase, artwork positions, the low seating arrangement and a hopscotch drawn on the floor.
01.1The plan · Reading the room from above
Line axonometric study of the exhibition layout, with artworks, furniture and a central stair.
02.1The outline · The plan, raised into three dimensions
Rendered axonometric view of the exhibition layout, showing the purple wall, bath and arrangement of artworks.
02.2The arrangement · Scale, colour and placement
Rendered axonometric view from the opposite side, showing the central stair, artworks and a low table with cushions.
02.3Another viewpoint · The same room, turned around
An overhead view across the low gathering table and cushions toward the rest of the gallery.
01.2Around the tableFrom the plan to the gallery floor
A long view through the exhibition with a chalk hopscotch drawn on the gallery floor.
01.3A game drawn on the floorFrom the plan to the gallery floor
An upholstered chair, floor lamp and rug beside a display of objects and coloured ribbons.
01.4A familiar cornerFrom the plan to the gallery floor

02 / The spatial studies

Drawing relationships.

The exhibition takes shape between the pieces: their scale, their placement, and the room they leave for one another.

Digital interior perspective of the proposed exhibition, with the floor work, gathering table and suspended pieces.
03.1The proposal · Interior study
The finished exhibition from a similar viewpoint: the heart-shaped work, the low table and cushions, and the hopscotch on the floor.
03.2The room, realised · La Corvée Galerie, Paris

03 / At eye level

From a plan to a place.

The perspective study brings the proposal down to the scale of a visitor: floor, wall and suspended works share a single view.

04 / In progress

Around the model.

A recording from the working model. Moving around the space makes the relationships between the artworks, furniture and architecture easier to read.

Process recording00:17

04.1The working model, in motion

05 / The exhibition

A room, inhabited.

The drawings become a place to gather, look, linger and share.

Select a photograph to take a closer look.

05.1A room for many voices
05.2At the threshold
05.3A familiar corner
05.4Around the table
05.5Across the floor
05.6Another eye level
05.7Room to stay

Credits

In my bathrobe,
I wait for the
end of the world.

Curation
Mat3am Club
Jade Saber
Carmen Folleas
Léna Kemiche
Graphic design
Sandrine Fragasso
Place & design period
La Corvée Galerie, Paris
September – November 2024
Fouad’s contribution
Exhibition layout
& scenography
Documents
The curatorial booklet Working document · PDF

Artists

  • Chahid El Batti
  • Soraya Abdelhouaret
  • Myriam Boukrit
  • Malek Abdelmajeed
  • Yomna El Bayaly
  • Aya Abu Hawash
  • Tara Sammouri
  • Cindy Bannani
  • 8clos
  • Anissa Idrissi Boughanem
  • Nuria Mokhtar
  • Jasmine Sdigui
  • Feryel Kaabeche
A video call on 18 September 2024 between Fouad, Sandrine, Carmen, Jade and Léna, looking at a notebook sketch of the exhibition layout with each artist’s name marked in red.
The exhibition's green and blue graphic, with its French title and artist, curator and design credits.
06.1Exhibition graphic · Sandrine Fragasso06.2Behind the poster · 18 September 2024
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