Corps et âmes @ bourse de commerce - Paris

​From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, from Georg Baselitz to Ana Mendieta, from David Hammons to Marlene Dumas, from Arthur Jafa to Ali Cherri, some forty artists explore, through painting, sculpture, photography, video, and drawing, the links between body and mind.

"In the matrix-like curves of the Bourse de Commerce, echoing the circle of bodies inhabiting the vast painted panorama encircling the building's glass dome, the exhibition "Body and Soul" explores, through the works of some forty artists from the Pinault Collection, the pervasiveness of the body in contemporary thought. Freed from any mimetic shackles, the body, whether photographed, drawn, sculpted, filmed, or painted, constantly reinvents itself, giving art an essential organicity that allows it, like an umbilical cord, to take the pulse of the human body and soul."

Art captures energies, the vital flows of thought and inner life, to invite an engaged and humanist experience of otherness. Forms are transformed, reconnecting with figuration or breaking free from it to grasp, retain, and allow the soul and consciousness to surface. It is no longer a matter of embodying forms but of capturing forces and making visible what is buried, invisible, of illuminating shadows. In the Rotunda, Arthur Jafa's work, "Love is the Message, the Message is Death," transforms the space into a sounding board for the music and commitment of African-American icons such as Martin Luther King Jr., Jimi Hendrix, Barack Obama, and Beyoncé, giving them a universal reach.

In resonance with the exhibition, a rich musical program makes "Body and Soul" a polyphonic event. Emma Lavigne, Executive Director of the Collection, General Curator.

With: Georges Adéagbo / Terry Adkins / Gideon Appah / Diane & Allan Arbus / Michael Armitage / Richard Avedon / Georg Baselitz / Cecilia Bengolea / Constantin Brancusi / Miriam Cahn / Claude Cahun / Ali Cherri / Peter Doig / Marlene Dumas / Robert Frank / Latoya Ruby Frazier / Philip Guston / Anna Halprin & Seth Hill / David Hammons / Duane Hanson / Kudzanai‑Violet Hwami / Anne Imhof / Arthur Jafa / William Kentridge / Deana Lawson / Sherrie Levine / Kerry James Marshall / Ana Mendieta / Zanele Muholi / Senga Nengudi / Antonio Obá / Irving Penn / Man Ray / Robin Rhode / Auguste Rodin / Niki De Saint Phalle / Mira Schor / Lorna Simpson / Wolfgang Tillmans / Kara Walker / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

General curator: Emma Lavigne, general director of the Collection, general curator

D Luidgi Carinho and VPV

With the support of around a hundred works from the Pinault Collection, the Bourse de Commerce presents the exhibition “Body and Souls,” offering an exploration of the representation of the body in contemporary art.​

Corps et âmes | Bourse de Commerce