On the Breton coast, Diane Barthélemy imagined Porte du Soleil on a cubic bunker from the Second World War.
Primary colors cover the exterior, curves and circular shapes let its square structure disappear; while warm, organic shapes and shades live inside, finding a common origin in a yellow circle painted on the entrance floor. Like a distant lighthouse at sea or a Solar Gate on a rainy day, the building offers the contemplation of a landscape from west to east passing through the north through its three openings overlooking the sea on the dunes of Keremma.
This blockhouse is one in ten on this horizon, one in thousands in France. The Second World War left thousands of these buildings on the European coast of the Atlantic Wall, notably in France where thousands of them lie abandoned, sometimes used as canvases by street artists but too often appearing at the horizon like dark blocks of memories.
Recoloring the blockhouse is a way of overcoming our past. Towards a brighter horizon.
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