Mehdi Görbüz, a 5th-year student at Beaux-Arts de Paris, won the Prix de la Colle Noire.
It was chosen from among eight candidates shortlisted by a professional jury following a call for artistic creations to be installed in the gardens of Christian Dior's Château de la Colle Noire near Grasse, in an ephemeral, open-air setting.
This “real-life” educational experience is being carried out in partnership with Christian Dior Parfums, sponsor of the Chaire Habiter le Paysage, pratiques artistiques d'hospitalité pour le vivant des Beaux-Arts de Paris, coordinated by Estelle Zhong-Mengual.
Blue sky, rising waters, our chilhood memories is now produced and installed by the young graduate, and enters into dialogue with the garden. The work is made up of castings in the shape of immense scallops with a Botticellian allure, made from plastic children's swimming pools, arranged in three places, like an imaginary ruin.
“These are artifacts charged with memory, mute witnesses to a bygone era, but still alive, like a memory that fossilizes and crystallizes.” - Mehdi Görbüz
Photo credits: © Vanni Bessetti and © Beaux-Arts de Paris
Blue sky, rising waters, our chilhood memories - Mehdi Görbüz, 2025
