Sunday, February 26, 2017

THE BARBÈS MÉTRO STATION: ACCESSIBILITY AND SPACES FOR ARTS


EAST-WEST AND NORTH-SOUTH LOCAL LINES AND A REGIONAL EXPRESS LINE MAKE BARBÈS EASILY ACCESSIBLE...

Adapted from an official map

It is combines an industrial monument, a neighborhood symbol, an unusual site for exhibits and performances and a walkway waiting to be put to use:


  • 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

It was called "a great waste"* and "court of miracles of peddlers, delinquents and migrants," and with covid the project was abandoned


A court of miracles? The space in August 2022

The space calls out to the imagination.  

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