This first architecture by La Mediterránée is made in plaster and wood; the interior has been painted in the way of antique frescoes. Seventeen layers have been dabbed with a sponge of a mix of egg yolks and Hercolanum red pigment. The wood was painted in roman black and the upper wall band was painted with hard brushstrokes of cement, simulating a sky. This architecture is meant to be placed in the centre of forthcoing research group’s exhibits, adapting to the rythm and quality of each exhibition: it is subject to expansion and modification until reaching the size of a familial village in the coming years. At the end of each exhibition, the architecture is dismantled in parts as if it were efficiently pillaged to the ground. Being modular and reproducible, it will be built anew through cycles of destruction and reconstruction. This architecture is a structure; like the ship Argos, all pieces are replaced while the name is kept. It is a living form of Friedrich Schiller expressing a sinusoidal drift. #friedrichschiller #barbarism