Through close observation of how people inhabit, adapt, appropriate, or endure the spaces that frame their lives, artists and filmmakers B\u00eaka & Lemoine cast light on the way people and places influence each other to unveil how the built environment affects our physical, psychological, and emotional state.<\/p>\n
In parallel to a body of films that have sought to humanise the way architecture is perceived and represented, since 2017 B\u00eaka & Lemoine have been travelling the world to explore the idea of the city as an ecosystem, observing the peculiarities of the species they name Homo Urbanus<\/em> in the international habitat it continues to construct\u2014and be constructed by.<\/p>\n At MAC\/CCB, the largest presentation of this extensive ongoing project to date exhibits over 13 hours of films from 13 very different cities\u2014from Rabat to Venice, Tokyo to Mumbai. With endless curiosity and unusual proximity, B\u00eaka & Lemoine gather evidence from local laboratories of the great global experiment in how to live together. Framing the street as a grand stage where the actions of daily life are performed, this epic video installation of pure cinematic observation invites the visitor on a journey through global urban space. Organised in three zones of different editorial and experiential logics, the exhibition also proposes a reflection about how the way we look can be an act of editing itself.<\/p>\n