(What inhabit means)

"During lockdown, I sketched ideas for housing. I focused on the house as matrix of a life project. A house that attempts an environmental approach: it comes into interaction, stands out from its immediate surroundings, seeking reciprocal evolution. And might therefore constitute a solid basis for projection into the future." matali crasset 

Each of these seven houses was inspired by readings of ecologist and anthropologist philosophers. These domestic utopias are polar opposites of the cocoon house, which insulates and protects. Two houses will be particularly elucidated: "Under the house, the earth breathes," inspired by an Augustin Berque quote, and "the time of restitution," based on a reworking of the pit house, a neolithic house that offers a lifestyle with a different relationship to waste, as a resource.

The exhibit design itself constitutes a cabin, since it comprises a "wood circle" a traditional method of stocking firewood, which will revert to its primary usage when the exhibition is over.

The exhibition in the Château d'Eau gallery will feature seven models and two descriptions of two micro-structures that will be built in full scale and installed in the public space of the Saint-Cyprien neighborhood before finding a permanent location in the city.

Models: Martin Aublant and Léa Pesant

With the support of Tisséo Collectivités—matali crasset is the artist chosen for the design of the Marengo-Matabiau station of the planned Métro Line 3. With the cooperation of the Museums and Monuments Department of the City of Toulouse.

The two micro-structures produced with the support of the Fondation des Artistes et des Amis du Nouveau Printemps.