INSIDE exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

The Palais de Tokyo, Paris, established in 2002 as an anti-museum and since 2012 one of Europe’s biggest contemporary art venues, presents the INSIDE exhibition.
Broadly speaking, the title references our own “interiors”, namely a journey inside ourselves. So, the art exhibited for INSIDE provides the medium to explore not so much the artistic expressions as such, as the spatial and interior relations that develop between the artwork and the visitor. The artist becomes the creator of images that form inside our heads.
The artworks exhibited on two floors range from social installations like “Tape” by the Numen/For use group, to more strictly architecture installations like “Three Sections” by Marcius Galan, who proposes a physical and mental game on the space around us.  
Visitors to the INSIDE exhibition must start their adventure by stepping into the forest, full of references to ancestral and wild nature, created by artist Eva Jospin and it ends with a historical artwork by Bruce Nauman from 1968. This sound installation repeats itself in a continuous cycle and serves to free visitors from the visual and imaginary images that the art exhibits evoked in their minds.
INSIDE at the Palais de Tokyo is open until 11 January 2015.

(Christiane Bürklein)

Exhibition: INSIDE
Dates: from 20 October 2014 to 11 January 2015
Location: Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Photography: Courtesy of Palais de Tokyo, see captions
Exhibiting artists: Jean-Michel ALBEROLA, Dove ALLOUCHE, Yuri ANCARANI, Sookoon ANG, Christophe BERDAGUER & Marie PEJUS, Christian BOLTANSKI, Peter BUGGENHOUT, Marc COUTURIER, Nathalie DJURBERG & Hans BERG, dran, Marcius GALAN, Ryan GANDER, Ion GRIGORESCU, HU Xiaoyuan, Eva JOSPIN, Jesper JUST, Mikhail KARIKIS & Uriel ORLOW, Mark MANDERS, Bruce NAUMAN, Mike NELSON, NUMEN/FOR USE, Abraham POINCHEVAL Araya RASDJARMREARNSOOK, Reynold REYNOLDS & Patrick JOLLEY, Ataru SATO, Stéphane THIDET, TUNGA, Andra URSUTA, Valia FETISOV, Andro WEKUA, Artur ZMIJEWSKI.
Curators: Jean de Loisy, Daria de Beauvais, Katell Jaffrès
Captions:

01
Mike Nelson
Studio Apparatus for Palais de Tokyo - A Maquette Turned Memorial to a Phantom Work: Four Way Introduction; towards a mechanism to dislocate both time and space; futurobjectics (reversed); mysterious island*
*see introduction or The Exorcism (of both the public and the private), 2014
Photo: André Morin.
02
Eva Jospin, Forêt, 2014
Photo: André Morin.
03
Numen/For Use, Tape Paris, 2014
Photo: André Morin.
04
Stéphane Thidet, Sans titre (Le Refuge), 2007
Photo: André Morin.
05
Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg's installation.
Photo: André Morin.
06
From left to right: Ataru Sato, his sea, 2014 ; Ryan Gander, I is…(x), 2014
Photo: André Morin.
07
Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus, E.17 Y.40 A.18 C.28 X.40 0.13,5 (detail), 2014. © ADAGP, Paris 2014.
Photo: André Morin.
08
dran, Attention de ne pas tomber, 2014
Photo: André Morin.