A decommissioned black submarine hull elevated on a concrete plinth at the Cité des Sciences, Paris, with angular slate-covered steps in the foreground, a red modernist building to the left, and a pale autumn sky above.

Argonaute Submarine at Cité des Sciences, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

The Argonaute sits suspended above a concrete plinth at La Villette — a decommissioned submarine treated as civic monument, its black hull cutting across the sky. Around it, the angular geometry of the Cité des Sciences complex holds everything in a kind of industrial calm. It is the weight of the object that does the work: heavy, purposeful, out of its element and entirely at home in it.

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