Manifesto is part of the team managed by Pitch Promotion – Eiffage Immobilier, including architects Sou Fujimoto, Cino Zucchi, Lambert-Lénack, Dream, Chartier Dalix, Carta Associés, Anouck Matecki and the landscaper Alain Faragou. Joia Méridia aims to become the hub of the Nice Eco-Vallée urban technopole.

Manifesto devised a high-profile artistic program to which the project’s developers decided to allocate 1% of the cost of construction. The company chose an artistic director from Nice, Eric Mangion, director of the Centre d’Art of the Villa Arson, and mobilized major local partners: the Musée National du Sport, the Espace de l’Art Concret and Le 109 – Pôle de Cultures Contemporaines.

Carsten Höller's monumental work                   

Manifesto is an exceptional artistic commission that will give Nice a new international artistic signature. A few decades after his time at the Villa Arson, Carsten Höller will create a monumental work for Joia Méridia, positioned high up on the walkways, which will sublimate the project's architecture with a touch of the marvelous, typical of the artist's work. The work aims to create a link between the architecture and the uses of the program, bringing unity, impact and attraction to the scale of the neighborhood.

The team has designed an ambitious and varied cultural program for the city and its tourists, which began during the construction phase and contributes to the creative life of the neighborhood. 

Carsten Höller will continue his famous Y series, which has been presented throughout the world, and will be delivered in a  new scale here, for the first time at a height. By grafting tunnels of light rings around the  walkways, he will create luminous auras suspended in space.          

Manifesto is in charge of the production of the work, and facilitates the follow-up of the technical studies in connection with the promoters, architects and design offices of the buildings to which the footbridges are connected. 

Olivier Amsellem: the inspirations of the landscape 

In the fall of 2019, Manifesto has entrusted a first photographic commission to Olivier Amsellem to testify to the landscape inspirations of Joia Méridia. 

Cédric Teisseire: a unique project house 

As part of this artistic program, Manifesto invited Cédric Teisseire to intervene on the Maison Joia, a sales bubble that will open in March 2021 for two years. The artist has covered the surface with paint drips made with a syringe, like a multitude of fine waterfalls underlining the architecture of the Maison Joia. Inspired by serial music, this saturated covering work seems to have a perfect regularity, almost mechanical. By approaching, it is possible to perceive the accidents produced on these harmonious lines by the excess of paint similar to an old skin, but also by the external forces. In addition, Cédric Teisseire proposed a new variation of his previous work Alias, from eight unpublished photographs, hung on the palisade of the construction site of Joia Méridia. This photographic work fully underlines the artist's relationship to landscape and abstraction, by confronting them here with a landscape in full mutation.