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In order to mark the presence of Morocco as country-of-honor at the 2017 Paris Book Fair (Livre Paris), we have decided to showcase a Morocco that is resolutely contemporary, open, and in constant reinvention. As a departure from traditional, ephemeral event spaces, we wanted to propose an experience that is as much spatial as literary. In order to feature the production and diversity of Morocco, we imagined a space whose perimeter would be inhabited by the work of the country’s authors, designers, photographers and artists of all generations. These detachable pages - which will inhabit the thickness of the walls of the pavilion - will allow visitors, while roaming through the space, to select and compile these pages into a bound book. This freely-assembled book will allow the visitor to leave the pavilion with a piece of contemporary Morocco - an instant of editorial production that will give particular meaning to the slogan, "Morocco is an open book." This compound object, between palimpsest and exquisite corpse, will mark the passage through the show.
