A tower of books, its form reminding us of the Tower of Babel as it is represented on Pieter Brueghel’s famous paintings.

Height and diametre over 4.50 m, weight about 5 tons, 15 000 books of all origins, languages and contexts: novels, poetry, theatre texts, art books, cook books, children’s books, school books, travel guides, do-it-yourself books, diet books, memoirs, technical and scientific publications, administrative texts, political books, censored books, translations and books in their original langage, old books and very recent ones…

With support from :
French Ministère de l.a Culture et de la Communication, Région Île-de-France, Conseil Général des Yvelines, Ville de Versailles, Emmaüs Alternatives, Monum Editions du Patrimoine, Knauf Insulation, Actes Sud, Collège Henri Matisse de Montreuil, Le Cherche Midi, Larousse, Numilog.com, Boudier Moskwa Architectes, Metzler’sche Buchhandlung Karlsruhe, the ZKM librairy, ARTE, la Ville de Poitiers, the Faculté de Lettres and the Maison de l’Architecture de Poitiers, RecycLivre, the ENSAPLV and the Éditions de la Villette, and all the contributors of books.

Many thanks to :
Nicolas Michelin, Valérie Knochel, Aziza Albou, Julie Pagnier, Nicolas Moskwa (EXP architectes), Alain Accard, Jason Karaïndros, P&U Gautel, Peter Weibel, Bernhard Serexhe, Christof Hierholzer, Gisbert, Ronny and the team of the ZKM, Anatole Serexhe again and again for his precious assistance, Théo Beilé, the whole team of ARTE, François Bouet, Jean-Pierre Uhlen, Dominique Truco, Régis Cotentin, Jean-Marie Dautel and the team of the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Lille, Marie Papazoglou, Lucie Duckerts and the team of the Botanique in Brussels, Companie Lunatic, and all the people and contributors without whom this babylonian installation wouldn’t have been possible.

The photos are by JG, unless specified otherwise (Ianna Andréadis, Jason Karaïndros, Marilena Kourniati, Bernhard Serexhe, Bruno Weiss…).