A book becomes inhabitable
The book is not adapted into a performance.
It becomes a journey into the inner sea of the self.
Éclats de la mer is a sensory and communicative installation where visitors move through fragments of a book rather than reading it from beginning to end.
The space becomes a conversation. Objects become interfaces. Visitors become mediators.
Origin / Previous installation
From Fragments of Memories to Éclats de la mer
The project continues a method first tested in Fragments of Memories: physical objects, a reconstructed domestic environment, painting and a digital character created a room where memory could be entered and addressed.
Documentation
Atelier des artistes en exil, Marseille
22–23 May 2026
From water to heat, from memory to transformation
The visitor journey
Entrance
The body crosses the threshold.
Water Corridor
Dripping becomes speech.
Memory Space
Objects become alive.
Fragment Table
Visitors choose and carry meaning.
Waiting Place
A separated voice asks to be reached.
Dry Wind & Heat
Cracked earth, final transformation.
The path begins with water and leads toward heat. The visitor moves through dripping, humidity, objects and memory until the ground becomes dry, cracked and wind-swept.
The chapter of dripping water becomes an architectural threshold
The Water Corridor
Spatial episode
A dark elongated corridor resembles an old shower or technical passage. Pipes run along the walls and ceiling. Water drips constantly. Humidity becomes a physical condition.
Dramaturgy
At the far end, a large vertical screen shows Sasha. He appears distant, approaches, recites the water fragment, then asks the visitors to carry a greeting or message from the South to those they will meet later.
Literary inhabitants of the book
Four digital characters
Sasha
9 years old
Childhood before explanation
The One Who Walks
23–25
Movement · debt · search
The One Who Waits
23–25
Suspended time · memory
The Giver of Waves
23–25
Transmission · rupture
The characters are not generic assistants. They are literary beings with memories, vocabularies and emotional logic derived from the book.
Interaction is spatial, not only conversational
The visitor as mediator
The One Who Walks
Movement · debt · search
Sasha
Childhood before explanation
VISITOR
The visitor carries words, images, objects and feelings between separated voices.
The Giver of Waves
Transmission · rupture
The One Who Waits
Suspended time · memory
The installation stages the impossibility of dialogue — and the visitor's attempt to make it possible.
A handmade, sensory and digital environment
Materials and media
- Found objects
- Painting and drawing
- Water, sand, stones and earth
- Sound, voice and projections
- Smells and air movement
- Digital characters
- Text fragments
- Visitor interaction
Practical information
Space & route
- Adaptable surface: approx. 60–120 m²
- One continuous space, no internal walls
- Clear entrance → water → memory → heat trajectory
Audience
- Groups: 5–15 people
- Duration: 25–45 minutes
- Languages: French and English
Status
- Project in development.
- Open to residencies, exhibitions and co-production.
No one receives the whole story.
Everyone receives a fragment.
And through these fragments,
the sea begins to speak.