To demonstrate the ambivalence of the disco years, visitors are invited to explore the streets of a hostile New York that materialises through full-height walls inspired by the architecture of the city’s high-rise buildings. This impressive and solemn device gives us a glimpse of daily life on the margins for struggling minorities. Within these free spaces, “boxes” stand here and there, embodying the refuge that disco and discotheques represented in a context where one had to either submit or hide away. All the devices are designed according to a square shape, in tribute to the chequerboard pattern of the dancefloors.
