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Laurent Le Bon

Art historian and curator, Laurent Le Bon likes to practice his trade by cross roads. His career began at the Delegation of the Visual Arts of the Ministry of Culture and the Center Pompidou, with notable exhibitions like Dada, then he volunteered for a "project in the region", the Center Pompidou Metz. Since 2014, he has swapped "contemporary construction" for the historic Marais district and the Picasso Museum mansion, while continuing to hold exhibitions such as Dioramas at the Palais de Tokyo and Jardins au Grand Palais in 2017.

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The living in the museum

Laurent Le Bon

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The living in the museum

Laurent Le Bon is Art historian and curator. He took part into the creation of the Pompidou Center Metz before becoming director of the Picasso Museum in 2014. In parallel with this function, he continues to curate major exhibitions. In 2017, he created Jardins at the Grand Palais and Dioramas at the Palais de Tokyo. These two exhibitions have in common the confrontation with the aporia that is the representation of the living world in the museum setting. He returns in this interview on the issues and the links between these two events.

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Showcasing the Living

Laurent Le Bon

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Showcasing the Living

The eruption of the living into contemporary creation has profoundly upset its processes and its nature. Having become organic and autonomous, the living artwork questions on both practical and symbolic levels its exposure to the public, notably in a classical museographic context. Following in the wake of artists who have broken museographic codes like Pierre Huyghe or Philippe Parreno, conservator Laurent Le Bon puts the place of the living in the museum into perspective through the exhibitions Jardins and Dioramas, exhibitions that he curated. Left at the threshold of the institution, both as a principle, and for practical reasons of conservation, the living enters the space of the museum via the history of its representations. These exhibitions, both connected to the in situ and to the “unmovable”, on a symbolic level explore the idea of the screen, the articulation of the fake and the real, the natural and the artificial, and also the wealth of the imagination and temporal dynamics of the garden.

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