On the coast of Cap Ferret, Diane Barthélemy imagined Horizon on a pentagone bunker used during WWII. A red, blue and yellow structure now replaces a dark vestige on the dunes of the Horizon. From the roof, an intime area is reachable all painted in outremer letting the visitor contemplate the ocean's landscape in a blue feeling capsule.
World War II has left thousands of blockhaus sitting on the European coast of the Atlantic Wall. In France, more than 8000 of them are being abandoned, sometimes the happy free land for street artists, sometimes nature starts covering them but very often they are sitting in the horizon as dark blocks of reinforced concrete filled by beach trashes and broken glass.
Cleaning them and fully recolore them let us reimagine a common horizon on our littorals. These dark blocks reflecting a traumatic period then become a new bright horizon.
SOLARGATE Horizon, Plage de l’Horizon Cap Ferret, France 2021