Camping Cosmos is an ode to ‘camping’, in all its complexity, all its possible interpretations, all its connotations, both positive and negative. It’s an ode to the grid and its spatial power, its utopian, theoretical, abstract and geometric charge.

With a series of autonomous elements (some brought back from Brussels, produced by the agency, others rented from event/ wedding rental agencies), our proposal ‘explodes’ the notion of the pavilion, or at least dilutes it in an exercise that is as intellectual as it is formal, as drawn as it is improvised, as appropriable as it is an aesthetic proposition.
It is on the fine line between good taste and bad taste, popular and elitist, social criticism and embryonic promise and utopia, scenography and socio-cultural activation, ode to summer and enslavement to work always and everywhere that the proposal is built.

Following a precise square grid design, a series of braces are installed, forming the columns of the installation, which are crossed with horizontal elements (hollow metal sheaths, such as are found in concert halls or music festivals for scenography hangings). A careful connecting piece will be designed by Ouest for this project and brought to the site, helping to create this three-dimensional spatialisation. The whole thing is braced with cables and sardines (just like at the campsite). A series of other ingredients (lighting, electrical sockets, pennants, rainwater tanks, solar panels, etc.) will be added to and moved around this fixed framework, arranged according to a strict pattern. Underneath this structure, objects and elements are organised more freely and informally, sometimes camping, sometimes not at all.

This combination of strangeness and normality, device and living space, play and seriousness, survival and holidays is the driving force behind the proposal. Camping Cosmos aims to be welcoming in all its forms, and intends to be able to receive visitors, guests, lecturers, etc. within its confines, in an inhabited dialogue with the installation.