The forbidden books department of a library is precisely what we must absolutely conceal! This department retains every licentious works that the edition and the art may have produced: prints, engravings, libertine postcards, written pornographic materials, censored or X-rated pieces. When the French National Library (BNF) proposed us this promising, unusual and shameless subject, our agency found itself faced with a fantasised collection which had never been showcased. The audacity predominates, with commissioners who clearly want to have fun! Let’s dare! The stage set is designed to encourage voyeurism but in this case, it is the visitor who is observed. We conceived the space so that no individual could isolate himself with the highly coveted works. The performance is therefore equally in the exhibition room and on the picture rails (entirely pink, from floor to ceiling). The exhibition witnessed a record attendance at the BNF, which had never welcomed so many visitors. We must specify that the c-album workshop we often work with, also carries out a bold intervention on the facade of one of the towers of the great building: a gigantic and highly suggestive florescent pink X.

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c-album (graphic design), Gélatic (lighting)

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