Hélène Fauquet: Vivresse

Shells sit pressed onto photographs, held in place by glue you can still see, inside cheap frames. In the text written for the show, Millie Dow says the whole exhibition turns on that one move: a natural object mounted until it reads as ornament again, somewhere between specimen, readymade and trinket.

Vivresse, a blend of vie (life) and ivresse (intoxication), is Hélène Fauquet's first institutional show in France, and it fills the foundation's top floor. You look at photographs you can't fully see: a shell blocks part of each one, and the museum calls the frame around it a portal. Since 2023 she has also worked with the bubble, taken from advertising, scientific photography and household knick-knacks. Designboom compared the results to Rococo excess.

No newspaper critic has reviewed it yet. Entry is free, Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 7pm, and Yu Nishimura's painting show runs in the same building on the same dates. A lift serves every floor, and large bags go in free ground-floor lockers.