At the time, Paul-Olivier Delannois, mayor of Tournai, had charged Jacky Legge and Julien Foucart, two cultural actors, with finding a place and support to try to experience mourning differently.
“The location that was chosen quickly stood out: the Alphonse Willocq space at Mont-Saint-Aubert,” explains the City of Tournai. “On one side, it faces a very broad landscape combining the local hills, the town and the vast quarries of Gaurain-Ramecroix. On the other side, the small park is delimited by a green curtain. The space chosen is both open and closed depending on the position of the person who comes to meditate.”
An architectural competition was then held and Agnès Mory as well as Barbara Noirhomme were chosen by the jury. “They integrated into the space and the support a poetic sentence by Violaine Lison, written expressly for the occasion. The integration of these words reinforces the poetic character of Mont-Saint-Aubert. “A soulful spirit must now generate a spirit of place adapted to all and adopted by each and every person.”
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