LabDaily Fashion Report #3

Louis Vuitton Espace Culturel's New Exhibition - Perspectives

A new horizon opens with “Perspectives”.

For the first time, the Espace culturel Louis Vuitton is concentrating on two artists. Two women, two French citizens, two different and complementary offerings. Odile Decq is an established architect who has just completed the extension and fitting of the MACRO (Rome); Camille Henrot is a 31-year-old visual artist pre-selected for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2010.

The meeting of their two visions gives the “Perspectives” exhibition all of its meaning. Sixteen works, which are creations for the most part, offer an attempt to understand space and the world by means of a twofold view. Perspective is a way of seeing and foreseeing, a trompe l’oeil, an oblique way of representing objects in order to better reveal them.

An architect renowned as an artist, Odile Decq is fascinated by the horizon. For the exhibition, she has designed three installations combining steel, metal or glass, which all present a challenge to our perception. Creating an impression of depth where there is none, maintaining a sense of balance against all expectation, opening up the horizon where

it seems to be closing in… Optical illusion and surprise dominate this head-on, sensitive and playful architectural signature, marked by extraordinary precision.

Camille Henrot observes the world from an astonishingly sharp, alternative perspective. Through her readings and creations, she has built a personal anthropology for which this exhibition is the theatre. Through video, sculpture, drawing, engraving,photography, weaving, etc., she explores travel and its misunderstandings, the impossible comprehension of the other.

Her work consists in reappropriating objects, which she twists, deforms or expands, such as this mobile phone, the symbol of modernity, plunged into tar to underline the inauthenticity of the objects. Travel is thus the experience of transformation,and any journey in space is a journey in time.

It is rare to combine the work of an architect and a visual artist. However, both are revealing a facet of the Espace culturel Louis Vuitton to mark this 12th exhibition. Odile Decq transforms it into a ship or a plane and Camille Henrot into a sort of museum of man. They also allow the very essence of travel to emerge: metamorphosis, impossible symmetry departure and the horizon.

Curator of the exhibition: Hervé Mikaeloff

Designer: Adrien de Melo

Espace culturel

"Perspectives":

Entrance: 60 rue Bassano - 75008 Paris

or via the Champs Elysées Maison...

From Monday to Saturday - 12pm to 7pm / Sundays - 11am to 7pm.

Free Entrance

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