A project in co-production with "Mondes Nouveaux" (programme set up by the Ministry of Culture to support artistic creation after the health creation. As part of the cultural component of France Relance, 30 million euros have been allocated to this innovative support programme for the design and implementation of artistic projects).

Palinopsie is a dichroic-synthetic glass and steel sculpture based on the plans for the Regelbau M272, a marine battery bunker, several of which were built in Normandy during the Second World War. The bunker, a building of death, undergoes an architectural metempsychosis to be reborn in a volume of light. Concrete walls are replaced by the vibrations of moving colours, while the heart of the building swaps the cannon for a void open to the public.

The title Palinopsie refers to an optical phenomenon characterised by the abnormal persistence or reappearance of images after their disappearance.

The Regelbau M272 lends itself particularly well to this vision. Aesthetically strong, it is composed of various geometric planes that can be transposed into a construction made of dichroic-synthetic glass and steel. Though Palinopsie does not reproduce the M272's plans exactly, it is inspired by it to create a new architectural structure. The result is a bright and lively sister of this war building.

Fleur Helluin is a French artist. Her work takes the form of paintings, sculptures and ceramics, highlighting the friction between the banal and the spiritual through poetry and humour. This artist oscillates between Berlin and Normandy, between pop culture and mythological legends, between Instagram filters and the Quattrocento.  The formal humour of her lines and palette diffuses the threat of heavier themes (gender, war and love).

Having lived in Berlin for 14 years, the artist is particularly sensitive to the site of the Batterie de Longues, so historically charged. Her maternal grandfather was a resistance fighter in the Surcouf Maquis. Her paternal grandfather took part in the Battle of Dunkirk and often told her of the hours spend between sea, land and sky. The hope of a strong friendship between peoples and their reconciliation form part of the firm values of their heritages.