Curated by Suzanne and Claude Légé

Château d'eau continues the investigations into connections between decorative arts, architecture and social space. In developing this purpose-built, patterned sculpture for La Maison Patrimoniale de Barthète, in Boussan, France, several factors, historical, poetic, and environmental, were important. Specifically, the house's history as a "spa" or bath was taken up, and that reference was brought together with an acknowledgement of the site's present use as a museum dedicated to a collection of tiles and earthenware vessels produced by hand in the surrounding region in the 18th and 19th centuries. In doing so, the project alluded to the tower that is a predominant architectural feature of a building, while also taking an environmentally-inflected interest in the ubiquitous water towers that dot the local region.