These disappearances are replaced by a quest for the moment, as on the surface of the fleeting landscapes of Wolfgang Tillmans and Sherrie Levine.

In the course of the exhibition, the figure sometimes disappears, as can be seen in Rudolf Stingel’s abstractions from which the bodies seem to be absent, or in Sturtevant’s appropriations, with the uninhabited envelope of Robert Gober’s dress. These apparitions go as far as the reflection of the viewer in the works of Larry Bell, Rudolf Stingel, Liz Deschenes and Nina Canell. Une seconde d’éternité is frequented by shadows: that of Callas, appearing in Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s installation, and that of AnnLee, who haunts, through several avatars, the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce. Shadows, reflections, and spectral presences One of the challenges of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ work is to embody this passage of time, to confront impermanence, as in “Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) (1991), or the performative work “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform) (1991). This legacy, which winds its way through Une seconde d’éternité, is underpinned by an awareness of the brevity of life and the openness of the work of art to tangible emotions. Since April, a new exhibition has been devoted to Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn and their artistic friendship in Gallery 2. The exhibition is rooted in part in the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres and the way in which his practice opens up to other modes of aesthetic experience and relationship. A sound wave unfolds in the space: it is Echo (Dancing in the Street), a composition by the musician Arca (with Nicolas Becker), replayed by an artificial intelligence (Bronze), itself influenced by the atmospheric conditions and the presence of visitors. Heliostats, three suns in motion, fallen under the immense glass roof and hung on the concrete walls, scan the space and seek each other out by refracting the zenithal rays. The metabolism of a bioreactor in which the living ferments gives rise to new forms of perception and life. In this solar landscape, the character of Annlee is reincarnated like a mirage, on a screen or in other bodies, through the situation proposed by Tino Sehgal. An installation where the intensity of the presence of bodies and images is set against their fleeting nature and in which it a question of finding “in one second the infinity of joy” and contemplation, in the words of Charles Baudelaire.įor the entire summer, Philippe Parreno is transforming the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce into a new territory where temporalities and climates coexist: air, light, past, present and future, reality and fiction all generate sensations that affect the perceptions and bodies of visitors. The account created here through the works of 20 artists explores the present moment, in turn suspended, fleeting, inhabited by spectral presences, and traversed by the theme of loss and incarnation. Pinault Collection presents Une seconde d’éternité, a group exhibition conceived by Emma Lavigne as an introspective journey, at the Bourse de Commerce from June 2022 to January 2023.įor this new season bringing together summer and winter, the urgent nature of the here and now, and the search for the infinite, elusive though it may be, Une seconde d’éternité takes visitors on a journey inspired by the question and experience of time, through a selection of artworks from the Pinault Collection.

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