The collectors’ cabinet is a scenographic installation that immerses visitors in a visual and narrative journey, offering two readings of the same story. First, it presents an interior filled with travel souvenirs and evidence of social change. This is the exterior space, made of colored melamine, evoking furniture from the 1950s to the 1980s. This outer layer offers an evocative inventory that leaves traces: social traces, traces of the atmospheres of an era, traces of mass production, traces of the discovery of leisure time, holidays, impulse buying, and souvenir objects. Then, in a second phase, visitors enter the interior of the installation. Here, objects are staged in a museographic manner. It represents time that has passed, leading us to look at these productions in a different way. This space, resembling a white cube, highlights a process of selection and preservation. It presents a collection of eccentric objects that change status and become artworks.

Exterior views of the scenographic installation. Photo credits: Studio Norde, Pierre Desrumeau.

Interior views of the scenographic installation. Photo credits: Studio Norde, Pierre Desrumeau.

Framing. Photo credits: Studio Norde, Pierre Desrumeau.