Le Studio d’Orphée: Inside Jean-Luc Godard Home Studio

Visitors exploring the masterpieces at Fondazione Prada in Milan, Italy, can ascend the narrow stairs to the upper floor of the Sud Gallery to enter an intimate space that served as the creative womb for the later works of French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard, whose experimental approach to cinema first captured global attention with Breathless in 1960.

Upon entering the room, guests pass through a tastefully unkempt space featuring a fold-out chair, a lamp resting on a table, and a director’s block caught mid-swing. The walls are adorned with humbly tacked-up photographs and clippings that evoke the appearance of items carefully pulled from the plastic sleeves of a personal photo album.

Stock photo for illustration only, not from the actual event

Inside the main studio area, benches line the back wall, inviting visitors to sit and observe a faithful version of the home workspace once occupied by the legendary director. Nearby, various media readers rest in a precariously stacked arrangement upon an ornately painted wooden table.

Straddling the boundary between a lived and an imagined world, the installation takes its name from the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, referencing the musician's journey into the land of the dead. This exhibition is part of designboom’s MODES OF HABITATION chapter, which investigates how the spaces we inhabit continuously reshape our ways of living together.

Source: designboom