The book has been conceived as a visual promenade leading from Marseille’s Old Port to Fort Saint-Jean, and into the very heart of each work. To recreate this encounter between artist Laure Prouvost and the Mucem, there is a constant dialogue between the exterior, the sea and the stone of the fort, and the interior, the intimacy of the installations that unfold in the air, in the bowels of the earth and underwater… Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, the book captures this moment in time, thanks to photographic work specially carried out by Raphaël Massart, and to an evocative form designed by the artist: like a book also floating in the Mediterranean. To accompany this visual sequence, a booklet embedded in the heart of the book contains texts by exhibition curator Hélia Paukner and art historian Mathilde Roman.
