Paris+ by Art Basel: off exhibitions not to be missed

Hélène Janicot, the spiritual body in Sainte-Eustache

As part of the CRUSH program of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the winner of the Rubis Mécénat prize Hélène Janicot has created a path full of delicacy, tension and filigree, at the Sainte-Eustache church. Under the curatorship of Audrey Illouz, the project articulated in three stopovers of this student of barely 22 years old, highlights the body – spiritual and material – by inviting the public to a physical and sensitive experience of the place. The metallic ropes visible in the collateral materialize the force of attraction that underlies the pillars and our physical relationship to the monumentality of this sacred architecture. The second station plunges the visitor into the invisible depths of the building, through a transparent slab revealing the substrate of the monument. Finally, having taken the imprints of her own body in the concrete in a prayer position, in the Saint-Louis chapel, Hélène Janicot questions the sacred body and the memory of the human body, in what the latter has most embodied but also vain in the world. Minimalist, respectful of the building and full of reflections, this first project in situ shows promise for this emerging talent.

Saint-Eustache church, rue Rambuteau, 75001 Paris, until December 18, 2022.

OFFSCREEN, the UFO of contemporary art at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild

Founded by Jean-Daniel Compain and Julien Frydman, OFFRSCREEN is “the” new art event, during the crazy Parisian week of contemporary art. Bringing together 18 artists in the various and sublime floors of the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, it questions the notion of image and the perception that we have of it. Driven by their respective galleries, both French and international, this myriad of visual artists offers works for sale, including a monumental, luminous immersive installation by guest of honor, Anthony McCall, which occupies the 500 m² lower level. . By focusing on the moment when the drawing becomes “space”, Face to Face IV is a “sculpture of light” allowing the visitor to experiment in a renewed, sensitive and physical way, this very charged place. Alongside this key piece, the historic Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, the Franco-Moroccan Mustapha Azeroual and many others question this theme with acuity through a plurality of media ranging from videos, films, photographs, sculptures, mixed-media installations and digital works. In this exceptional setting recounting two centuries of history, the works take on a new dimension, engaging in a lively dialogue both with the place and with the public.

OFFSCREEN – Installations, fixed and moving images, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, 11, rue Berryer, 75008 Paris, until October 23, 2022.