Michel François is renowned for contaminating normal everyday logic. François creates subtle and intricate constellations composed of various materials and in the most diverse media (sculpture, installation, photo, video). Adopting an approach as poetic as it is disconcerting, he surveys phenomena of perception, which – apparently – have long been familiar to us.

On a raised platform in arch 52 François has installed a large collection of new sculptures, generating obvious links between the individual pieces through their materiality, for example in the use of glass. The fragile network comprises correspondences, yet each object exists autonomously as a distinct form. Viewers find themselves strolling through an array of common everyday objects, such as bottles, balloons, toys, which are however meaningfully transmogrified, alienated. The strategies he employs to this end seem astonishingly simple: employing a different material – balloons are not usually made of glass – or deformations. The entire platform of objects is based on the concept of reiteration and permutation.