Mémorial ACTe Centre Caribeen d’Expression et de Mémoire de l’Esclavage

Client

Contracting owner: Région Guadeloupe
Representative: Semsamar

Partners

Architect: Atelier BMC Atelier Doré-Marton
Scenography: Atelier Confino
Scenography contest: Les Crayons
Cultural engineering: BICFL
Graphics: Paula Mutel
Audiovisual production: Animaviva

Scope of Work

Lighting design with Bernard Freymann
Among other 800 ERCO fixtures in DMX > DALI Network
Audiovisual design and their automated control
450 Audio guides, multi-video projections
Interactive touch terminals and tables
Electrical power and low power engineering

Description

Memory inspires the future. Inaugurated by President Hollande in May 2015, the Memorial Act is the Caribbean Centre on the Expression and Memory of Slavery and the slave Trade in Point à Pitre. Through knowledge, culture and creation the project can contribute towards healing wounds of a past which has greatly impacted the edification of not only the Guadeloupean society but also the Caribbean and American societies. Through projections, reconstitutions, exhibitions of patrimonial objects, museum artefacts and contemporary works of art, the visitor will understand not only the origins of slavery and the high stakes involved, but also the importance of the fight for freedom for all men, regardless of where they come from or where they live.

Award

Recommmended by The New York Times as one of the 10 world destinations to go