Stefania Polo Villanueva

is from Peru and was on exchange in Le Mans. She identified a lost site on Rue Nationale. To use her words, she chose this place because of the contrast of different realities existing in the same place. On the one hand there is the building itself with its historical facade, dark windows and abandoned upper floors. On the other hand there is the commercial storefront's lively environment and all of the street activity on the ground floor. Her work is about creating a link between these two realities and about re-affirming the existence of the older, quieter part of the building. For her project she used LED's (light emitting diodes) attached to steel supports spelling the word ICI, which means HERE. The metal strips were attached to the window frames behind the panes of glass on the interior of the building so as to be visible from the street.



Conceptual Intervention

Actual Intervention