The artistic duo is used to working in urban environments, using volume and space to create immersive artwork that reflect and enhance the building’s architecture. The artists like to play with the idea of scale and encourage members of the public to wander through their artwork and to step inside structures that tower over them.

This attraction for all-encompassing, 360-degree immersive art is the driving force behind their proposal for the Labège-Enova station, inspired by monumental artwork in the Moscow underground and mosaics in the corridors of the Parisian underground.

In the south-west of Toulouse, the Labège-Enova station will serve the city’s new neighborhood, Enova, opening onto La Diagonale, a public space filled with nature. With their architectural focus, the artists have come up with a concept to link this leafy yet hectic exterior with the underground world of technological flux.

This takes the form of a gigantic immersive mosaic, designed as an unstructured and colorful arch that surrounds the public from floor to ceiling as it crosses the entrance hall of the station, seamlessly merging with the building’s architecture. The entrance hall becomes an immersive work of art that everyone can access and understand: an original piece to complete the ambitious artistic journey that unfolds across the underground system, a genuinely open-air gallery.

Manifesto is also working with Eva Jospin to produce artwork for the Jean Rieux station.