IBISCUBE

2020, IBISCUBE is an imaginary visual story questioning the human housing and the architecture in the middle of the lung of the world: the Amazonia. By a game of acrobatics, Guillaume Martial stages a character-bird, inspired by the symbolic red ibis of the french Guiana, between Brasil and Suriname. The animal explores the setting of urban planning which the men left to him. The bird in cage becomes the disturbing metaphor of the human being imprisoned into its concreted housing environment. IBISCUBE brings to question us about the human confinement in his architecture habitat, with the deal of natural spaces. This project is doubly echoing the environmental crisis and lockdown of half the earth's population in the last months. By his colored and playful universe, Guillaume Martial offers us a story marked by the derision. The bird’s cage transformes itself in a space of imaginary and poetic freedom…