Created by Maurice Benayoun with the Z-A production team, the video-film maker Yan Minh, Corinne Lambert, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Raymond Audemard and La Kitchen, the Membrane is the central component of the Man transformed exhibition. Maurice Benayoun describes it in this way: "The Membrane is an organic system made up of a group of flexible, moving virtual surfaces that breathe in time with the exhibition. Unlike physical surfaces, these virtual ones can move through each other. The proximity of a visitor repels or attracts the first surface, revealing the second, which moves in turn to offer a glimpse of the third and so on. In this way, the visitor penetrates into information, text, pictures and video. If the visitor stops moving, the next layer grows, developing the subject. If they step back, it is initially pulled towards them before retracting as if it had reached the limit of its elasticity. On the surfaces of the Membrane, information reorganises itself in a dynamic way, as if attracted and fed by the presence of the visitor. The Membrane is the first example of an organic interface for interactive exhibit design."

Photo: Zette Cazalas' exhibit design project for the Membrane