CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux
Nineteenth-century colonial warehouse of stone and timber, now vast naves of light for contemporary art.
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This guide to the CAPC in Bordeaux starts with the warehouse itself, raised at the water's edge in eighteen twenty-four to hold sugar, coffee and cotton hauled off ships by the tidal Garonne, most of it grown by enslaved hands before abolition in eighteen forty-eight. It follows the building from a working dock warehouse into a damp, half-forgotten ruin marked for demolition by the nineteen sixties, and the two campaigners, Anne Claverie and Nicole Schuler, who fought to save it while a companion warehouse next door came down. Look up at the long timber trusses overhead, once braced against the weight of imported cargo.
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