'I was waiting for you so impatiently, torn between pleasure and pain," the voice hisses. It is a woman's voice, tinted with French, throaty and insistent. "Stay with me," it begs. "Don't wander off, I need you."
Belonging to actress Jeanne Moreau, but eerily suggestive of Coco Chanel, the voice authoritatively sets our pace, pulling us from piece to piece within the Chanel Mobile Art Container.
Created by Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid for Chanel, the container is white, curvaceous and UFO-like, with slick, rounded panels that vaguely reference Chanel's ubiquitous quilted bag. A collaboration between designer Karl Lagerfeld, Hadid and curator Fabrice Bousteau, the building houses works by 20 artists for Chanel. Resting across from Yoyogi Park, and set against the background of Yoyogi Stadium, the pod touched down in Tokyo on May 31. It will stay until July 4, after which it will stop in New York, London and Moscow before completing its journey in Paris in 2010.