“Coraux de la Liberté” by Aude Franjou

For Paris Design Week 2025, which took place from September 4 to 13, maison parisienne gallery presented Coraux de la Liberté. The exhibition was a resounding success and was extended until September 21 for the Journée européennes du patrimoine.
This monumental installation by textile artist Aude Franjou took place in the heart of the July Column on Place de la Bastille in Paris.
Composed of hundreds of branches of linen fiber coral, the work rose from the vaults to the top of the rotunda. A chromatic gradient guided the eye from the immaculate white of the devitalized corals to a deep red, embodying their regeneration.
Coraux de la Liberté, like an immersive reef, paid tribute to the history of this monument celebrating water and freedom, and bore witness to an artistic feat, the result of more than six months of hand sculpting by the artist.
Through her textile sculptures, Aude Franjou explored organic growth, resilience, and the silent strength of living things, between art, ecology, and memory.