From June 19, the Centre Pompidou and the Louvre will present Loris Gréaud’s project, [I].

From June 19 to July 15, the Centre Pompidou will present one part of Loris Gréaud’s two-venue project, [I]. The artist has specially designed this monumental, performance-related sculpture for the Forum of the Centre Pompidou.

The name of the exhibition, [I], covers both works; it is not a word to be uttered, but a sign. At first glance, it evokes I, the first person singular pronoun in English, but in mathematics, [I] is the imaginary unit in the theory of complex numbers.

With [I], Loris Gréaud has created a new narrative mode, that of a solitary work which is constantly regenerated by the energy it gives off. [I] is not a finite object, but a representation of the relentless passing of time and the eternal return.

Loris Gréaud keeps challenging the notion of exhibitions, how works of art function and how they exist over time.

After Devils Tower (2006), a sculpture which he took all over Europe, ending at the Centre Pompidou, close to the venue of his latest installation, Loris Gréaud went on to create Cellar Door, a fictional work about the construction of his own workshop. After the ICA London, the Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, the Conservera Murcia, and the Kunsthalle Wien, Cellar Door was finally exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in 2008.

The second part of the [I] project will be on show beneath the Louvre pyramid from June 19 to January 20, 2013.