siesta blue

The word “siesta” comes to us from Spanish, and designates the sixth hour of the day — when everyone would take a moment together to rest.

siesta blue aims to be a material representation of this temporal interval dedicated to rest, thanks to an immense, protean, silky-soft carpet of a pastel blue shade that subtly reminds one of the sky. The carpet, an object which evokes new meanings and functions, is punctuated with malleable, interactive and varying forms that can be subsequently added and removed through a choreography of gestures. It thus evolves into a collaborative performance piece.

Through the iteration and reactivation of the previous project undertaken thanks to the artist centre Verticale, the doux soft club proposes the installation of this domestic object in a public space. AXENÉO7 supplies that space with one of its galleries, which little by little becomes a physical and symbolic — poetic — space within which the (de)construction of this majestic carpet takes place. This performative siesta encourages a moment of daydreaming and introspection through silent and meticulous movements. Its oneiric shapes, like colourful geometric clouds, fall apart and reshape themselves individually or collectively by the four entities of the club as well as instantaneous formal interventions. The visual voluptuousness produced by the bodies that move through the space modifies the visitors’ perception of the later and contributes to gently encourage interactions with the visitor-spectators. Gradually, all the detachable pieces of this carpet move, accumulate, disappear, and glide against each other in a delicate allegory of relaxation. 

— Jean-Michel Quirion