SEE YOU IN PARIS!
Paris is always a good idea but with the Olympics and South Korean artist Kimsooja’s latest exhibition arriving in the city, it’s a non-negotiable this summer.
Kimsooja has been given carte blanche as part of the Le Monde Comme Il Va exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce – the home of the Pinault Collection, which has been painstakingly restored by the award-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
Driven by the desire to create works that we cannot possess but must share with everyone, Kimsooja’s installation in the rotunda, entitled To Breathe – Constellation, inverts the architecture and the order of the world thanks to an immense mirrored floor.
A NEW PERSPECTIVE
She says: “What I have tried to do in this magnificent, historically laden rotunda is to
emphasise its architecture by reflecting it in its entirety, so that the public may experience the space as if it were inside a sphere or a globe, where one’s body becomes a vertical axis.
“I invite visitors to become unwitting interpreters who might recognise their own being and their own movement as it is reflected, enveloped, and expanded within the rotunda. All the activities they do consciously and unconsciously – gazing, breathing, walking – will comprise the spectrum and totality of To Breathe – Constellation.”
Kimsooja is also taking over the 24 display cases in the passage and the lower level of the museum with works and video installations that cover almost 40 years of her practice and address her favourite themes: identity, borders, memory, exile, movement and weaving.
To Breathe – Constellation will run until 1 September. Visitors must wear overshoes to access the area and ditch the stilettos. Skirts are also not recommended.
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