Galerie Party, Centre Pompidou – Acte II with Liu Bolin

In this second act, famous Chinese artist Liu Bolin, aka “The Invisible Man”, hides somewhere in the exhibition. At the inauguration of Act II, he made one of his emblematic photographs-performances that allows him to conceal himself by mimicry in the environment, thanks to a combination hand-painted. « For this second act of Galerie Party, we chose to invite Liu Bolin for the committed nature of his work and especially for the subtlety with which he draws our attention to the way things are. The examination of his photographs provokes a sort of amazement because there is something magical in the effect of disappearance. This is what allows children – among others – to access his art and the extra ordinary dimensions that it carries. The conjunction of painting in its raw state and of illusionist photography is the origin of the installation designed for this act II. We entirely modified the space by covering it with hand-painted patterns that disturb perception. We imagined costumes printed with the installation’s motifs. Thus, children can compose mimetic outfits that give them the power to appear and disappear according to places and positions. The space becomes a gigantic playground of illusion. »

Gaëlle Gabillet & Stéphane Villard, Studio GGSV. Children can assemble pieces of fabric, printed on the grounds of the installation, to compose mimetic disguises.The space is covered with hand painted motifs. On the Galeroom’s floor, pictures succeed one another by morphing. They interfere with shapes: nature, environment and objects of overconsumption. White overalls allow children to camouflage themselves and play with projections on the floor of the Galeroom of Liu Bolin’s pictures.