Amélia Tavella, architecte méditerranéenne
« I've always built on my island of Corsica, like an archaeologist bringing together what was with what is and what will be; I don't remove, I hang, bind, affix, slide, building on the original ground, on the original work. »
In Sainte-Lucie de Tallano, Amelia Tavella is completing the renovation and extension of the Saint-François Convent: copper reveals the stone and makes the ruinous, poetic state sacred.
« I chose to keep the ruins and replace the part that had been torn away, the ghost part, with a work of copper that will become the Maison du territoire. I walked in the footsteps of the past, linking beauty to faith, faith to art, moving the spirits of the past towards a form of modernity that never alters or destroys. Ruins are marks, vestiges, imprints. They also speak of foundations and truth. They were beacons, cardinal points, guiding our axes, our choices, our volumes. Building on ruins means embracing the past and modernity, promising never to betray each other. One becomes the other, and neither is erased. »
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