until Sunday September 20 2015

Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton
T : +33 (0)1 53 57 52 03
60, rue de Bassano
75008 Paris
France

DATA space

The Espace Louis Vuitton Paris carries on its ongoing exploration of the relationship between art and thread, and invites Franco-British artist Alice Anderson to draw inspiration from the space itself and create a unique exhibition: DATA space.

For DATA space, Alice Anderson wishes to record data related to the Espace Louis Vuitton Paris by measuring certain dimensions of its architecture. Wooden floorboards have been rearranged to form new rounded geometrical shapes, somewhat like diagrams of the physical dimensions, recorded in 3D by the copper wire. The skylights of the Rotunda have been remodelled in steel and then woven with copper wire; combined, they form a dance, once the pressure from the copper wire has bent the material. The elevator has been turned into a simple parallelepiped, and for the first time, visitors will be able to see the elevator cables. Certain sections of lighting track create a vertical ensemble that is infinitely adjustable. Finally, the housings of the neon lights on the ceiling find themselves interconnected by the wires pulled between them. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to discover the performances during which these unique works of art, crystallized in time, were made.