LA VILLE QUI
N’EXISTAIT
PAS 3 : LA
FORME D’UNE
VILLE

In collaboration with an artificial intelligence, his third episode, the shape of a city, is a double proposition that questions our present.

Within the Maison de l'Été, welcome place of un été au havre, the installation the shape of a city (2025–2049) produces each day modernist houses, printed in three dimensions. These buildings that do not exist gradually fill a fantasized city, whose appearance is not without recalling that of le havre. As in each season, 25,000 unique and numbered postcards are generated by the artist and distributed free to the public.

For the 2025 season, Grégory Chatonsky imagines La trève (2025–2032), a new series that evokes his film haven (2024), in which suspended characters stare into the void, read books, sleep by the sea, in settings punctuated by puddles, streams, and infiltrations. On the back of each card, a poetic text describes the image, as if figuring the inner monologue of the inhabitants…