The project led by the musician’s daughter, actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, preserved the house as it was when her father died. “It was a burden for me for 32 years,” she confessed.
The location has not changed since March 2, 1991. On the day of Serge Gainsbourg’s death, his daughter Charlotte was with him. In the following years, returning to 5 bis rue Verneuil, in Paris, was difficult. “For me it was a burden for 32 years,” confessed the 52-year-old actress and singer, who over decades turned the interior of the house into a “time capsule” in honor of her father, one of the biggest names. in music and popular culture music of the 20th century. Over the years, graffiti and tributes to Gainsbourg have multiplied on the exterior façade; the interior, which was closed to visitors and the passage of time – until now: Starting September 20, it will be open to visitors, converted into a house museum..
“It’s the end of something, but I don’t want to formulate it that way yet,” Charlotte Gainsbourg said. The country, on the occasion of a recent guided tour of the house. Aware of the space’s heritage, the daughter of Serge and Jane Birkin (who died this year) periodically returned to the site, never quite knowing what to do with it. “At first it was very painful, then a little less, but always with a lot of emotional charge,” she says.
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Source: Observadora
