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Over ten years ago, ESPACE art actuel (formerly Espace sculpture, founded in 1987) took up the challenge of reassessing its critical reflection on the visual arts, which focused primarily on the field of spatiality. The
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In his novel Que notre joie demeure (Héliotrope, 2022), Kevin Lambert describes “starchitects” in the world of globalized capital – architects who owe their prestige to fabulous projects that rarely reflect social reality. Lambert’s main