THE BARBÈS MÉTRO STATION: ACCESSIBILITY AND SPACES FOR ARTS

THE INTERSECTION OF TWO IMPORTANT LOCAL LINES AND A REGIONAL EXPRESS LINE MAKE BARBÈS EASY TO REACH:

Adapted from an official map

The site also combines an industrial monument, a neighborhood symbol, unique areas for exhibits and performances and a walkway waiting to be put to use:

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• Ironwork from which exhibits can hang...

Les Intruses ("The Women Intruders"), by the photographer Randa Marufi for the Institute of Islamic Cultures, 2020   zoom

• ...above a painted path... 

• ...that is adapted to skateboarding, bicycling, training...

• ...performances...

The Compagnie Gaby Sourire and Faun Arts, in June 2022

 

•  ...and more exhibits:

Installation by Ange et Dam

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Planned as an "urban promenade" uniting the Barbès, La Chapelle and Stalingrad stops...

(1.28 kilometers, launched in 2019)

    Map obtained through the link above

...the right-wing press called it "a great waste"* and "a court of miracles of peddlers, delinquents and migrants." The project was abandoned.

* "Le grand gaspillage."

A court of miracles? The space in August 2022

The space remains.

It calls out to the imagination.  

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A 1920's cinema...