The event L’art en pratique at the Centre Pompidou offered a participatory immersion into contemporary creation through workshops, performances, and encounters. Visitors were invited to write, paint, record stories, and explore the collection in new ways. Artists, speakers, and museum teams opened their practices and archives to share their perspectives.
Performance
Excerpt from the performance In Front of Sol LeWitt
Put down the box, take out two or three sheets of A4 paper and place them on the floor.
On Monday, the doors of this place will be closed, the doors of the temple, so to speak, a temple I have frequented since it opened. The Centre Pompidou has been like a lung, a heart, a space to live and to understand. My role models and my admirations have been concentrated here, on every floor of the building.
Open the box, put on the gloves, take out a ball of film and start unrolling it
In 1971, the Centre Pompidou did not exist when Sol Lewitt designed this protocol. It consisted of asking assistants to draw these strips of color on the wall, making the work as much a concrete act as an act of thought. This conceptual force, that is to say, the protocol, the idea, the concept, is the work of art itself, this conceptual form, which took on an important place at the Centre Pompidou from the moment it opened. Mostly from the US, the works and artists on display were a revolution for me when I saw the first Robert Smithson, Sol LSol LeWittce Neumann, – It was very masculine at the time.