Livrons-nous

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“Livrons-nous” questions, in a playful and poetic way, our relationship to the sacredness of the world and its evolution. This monumental artistic installation, nine meters high, was created during the Festival des Architectures Vives 2023, in a 13th-century courtyard in Montpellier.
The installation honors books and writing as a medium for the transmission of emotion through time. In the digital age in which we live, our social interactions are governed by the virtual world. Society struggles to disconnect from this digital world where everything moves so quickly, and this installation offers time to pause and daydream in the imaginary world of the book.
It takes the form of a monumental spiral, composed of a thousand loose pages escaping from an ancient, majestic book, and drifting up toward the sky. Like these pages flying away, visitors can let their imaginations run free with ink, making use of a small vintage school desk, perhaps serving as a reminder of childhood.
This installation is also an opportunity to open the inaccessible and emblematic courtyard of the hôtel particulier Ginestous to visitors. It reveals a colorimetric and sensory resonance between the stones of a 13th century building and a contemporary artistic installation. This work was designed and produced specifically for this historic courtyard, but, as it is aimed at a wide audience, it can be readapted on demand in other spaces.

In June 2023, “Livrons-nous” was presented with the Prix du Public award at the Festival des Architectures Vives.

Project details

Design: Charlotte Jeanjean, Viviane Le Deunff, Camille Maire
Project Location: Hôtel de Ginestous, Montpellier, France
Typology: Art installation
Built: 2023
Client: Festival des Architectures Vives
Size: 9 meters high, 600 sheets
Award: Prix du Public award at the Festival des Architectures Vives in June 2023

Charlotte Jeanjean + Viviane Le Deunff + Camille Maire

Charlotte Jeanjean is an architect and energy auditor, she works on energy performance in housing for individuals, and she is listed on the national platform ‘Mon accompagnateur Rénov’. In 2020, she founded her own agency – Atelier Jeanjean. Viviane Le Deunff is an architect leading projects at the intersection of architectural practice and artistic and aesthetic research, Viviane is passionate about levels of detail, material, and colors. Having worked with international agencies in Japan and Paris, today she is developing a practice positioned at the crossroads of several disciplines (architecture, art, design, and graphics). Camille Maire is an architect specializing in rehabilitation projects in Paris (housing, hotels, shops), she is now training in energy rehabilitation, bio-sourced materials, and the use of wood at different project scales: joinery, design, and wooden models.