Invited to produce a site specific installation for Palais de Tokyo’s new cafeteria (level 1), the Mexican artist Martin Soto Climent will mobilize an emblematic element of his work – tights. While they usually evoke femininity, in the artist’s project the flexible and synthetic veils are stretched from the ground to the ceiling, composing a network of straight lines that forms a vault above the cafeteria.  

Through the reenactment, under the high arches of Palais de Tokyo, of this construction largely found in religious buildings, Martin Soto Climent suggests the sacredness of the place that he perceives as a “cathedral for art”. The installation mobilizes the graphic dimension and the architectural potential of tights, first stretched on frames where they look like swathes of color before forming a gigantic nylon spider web occupying the whole space.

Curator: Daria de Beauvais

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