[Audio version - in French only]
PIERRE DESCARGUES: Jean-Michel Sanejouand who has already exhibited various space planning projects, for example that of the development of the Seine valley, where he planned to fill quarries with water and to accustom walkers to playing with stones, is now tackling a more ambitious, larger planning. Quite simply, that of our planet, Earth. It can be seen at the Galerie Germain, rue Guénégo in Paris. And there, we wonder a little in front of Sanejouand's Orientation Tables because the artistic process replaces scientific reflection.
JEAN-MICHEL SANEJOUAND: So, if I had this idea of organizing the space of planet Earth, after having organized the space, or the spaces, rather, of the Seine valley between Paris and Le Havre, it was a bit, at the start, yes, a sort of challenge, trying to move on to a plan so enormous that, obviously, what we could know, or if you like, the habit that I could have had to work, would obviously be very disturbed. And I was basically trying to do a second jump. But then, even if it means taking a leap, let's go for it frankly, I took the maximum leap, if I dare say so. But I had to find a method to work. The previous method, if I can say so, a method which had served me for the Seine valley, was, basically, to invent a sort of scenario. I took the time I needed to invent it. But here I realized that it was not possible. There was no possible scenario. So what was needed was like having a snack. But for that, I still had to start from something. So, I started from ←