The architecture of the Center Cartier is very messy and ordered at the same time. The walls are glass and they open into a graden which is not manicured but is wild in not even a very wild way, but in more of an urban way, like weeds and wilflowers growing in a vacant lot. I like how all the objects have their own meaing and power. The most powerful objects are fittingly put in the basement. They are darkened with something which is frequently perhaps goat blood There is a video of a ceremony where a goat is sacrificed and pour on an idol. Many are tied to fertility because in Africa fertility is key.
In a way by putting these ancient things from a culture which has been around as long as humanity in a city that in some ways tries to so seperate itself from nature, there is a type of magical act too...
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