Installed along Line 14 of the Paris Metro — a space emblematic of the city’s speed, efficiency, and modern flow — this work invites us to pause and look beyond the surface of urban life. Beneath the sleek infrastructure and the daily rhythm of commuting, another reality unfolds on the city’s edges: the industrial peripheries, where poverty lingers and a fragile ecosystem of nomadic inhabitants, migrants, and marginalized citizens quietly persists.

This installation seeks to reveal what remains unseen in the habitual journey from home to work — the landscapes of exclusion that sustain the very system they are excluded from. By bringing traces of these peripheral worlds into the heart of the metropolitan network, the work challenges our perception of the city, confronting us with the social geographies hidden beneath its polished image.

It is an invitation to reconsider mobility not only as circulation, but as a metaphor for visibility, privilege, and the right to exist. What we do not see is not absent — it simply exists outside the frame we choose to inhabit.