À l’épreuve de l’anamorphose : l’artiste, le monument, l’habitant
Résumé
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the registration of the Cité de Carcassonne on the World Heritage List, the Centre des monuments nationaux called on the visual artist Felice Varini in 2018. Consisting of strips of yellow paint applied directly to the ramparts, his installation, Concentriques excentriques, aimed to establish a dialogue between creation and heritage. Instead, it raised a controversy, in which the inhabitants took part to show their attachment to the image of the citadel, that part of the monument which they can still fully enjoy, at a time when overtourism is robbing them of their heritage.