Anish Kapor was offered the Grand Palais for this year's MONUMENTA (once a year the great space of the grand Palais is one artist's "property" for couple of months. The artist can invade de space how he/she (though never a she was yet invited) wants. Kapor decided to fill the air with a giant ballon. One color - one piece objet - Gigantic and poetic.First you enter the balloon. You come in by a tiny door and feel projected into the space. You are inside. Dizzy. The only light that comes in is filtered by the skin of the balloon, changing depending on the time of the day or the weather. The air is rare and the sounds muffled. If it wasn't for the 30 others person in there with you, you could almost feel in an intimate place.
A very intimate place : a womb.
I did surprise myself thinking "that must have feel like that"
Birth.
You experience it from the outside. The Grand Palais itself is an amazing place. Filled with light because of its glass roof, cold because of its concrete floor. And there in the middle like a excrescence, that wins over the metal structure is Levitan.
Of course some will say it is just a big balloon but it is also a color, the sensuality of the material, the need of touching it and above everything is the voice that reminds you that we are tiny. Very tiny.
