Mystification in Arc-et-Senans: Architecture & Cinema

Mystification – Architecture et cinéma, la quête de l’illusion turns the Saline Royale into a dialogue between built space and screen image. Trompe-l’oeil, architectural models, film sets and immersive projections show how perspective can disturb reality. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Jean Cocteau and contemporary visual techniques give the exhibition a precise cultural frame. The exhibition has a precise hinge: Ledoux’s architectural imagination meets cinema’s talent for illusion. That makes Arc-et-Senans a strong host, since the former saltworks already asks visitors to think about design, order and utopia.