EXHIBITION // CELESTE BOURSIER MOUGENOT - CLINAMEN // BOURSE DE COMMERCE - COLLECTION PINAULT // PARIS

© Vue de installation multisensorielle "Clinamen", Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2025

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Clinamen - through Sept. 21, 2025

La Bourse de Commerce Collection Pinault
2 rue de Viarmes
75001 Paris

www.pinaultcollection.com

Starting on 5 June, the artist Céleste Boursier- Mougenot is taking over the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce with his multisensorial installation "clinamen", which is being shown at an unprecedented scale, in resonance with the architecture of this site.

The Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection is embracing the colours of the summer season with clinamen, an aquatic and musical installation by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. This immersive project transforms the Rotunda into reverie space in which a basin 18 meters in diameter filled with water reflects the sky seen through the museum’s dome. White ceramic bowls float across this blue surface, generating melodious, enchanting sounds as a light current pushes them along. These acoustic vibrations, free of any intervention by a performer, constitute the very heart of the piece, a veritable symphony of the moment that evolves with a flow of invisible waves.

This work forms part of a tradition in which sound becomes a living material freed of the constraints of music as we customarily think of it, and in which the visitor is invited to participate actively in the experience. The title clinamen comes from Epicurean physics and refers to the random motion of atoms, a concept that resonates with the work’s inevitably changing and unpredictable nature. Each moment in the installation’s life is unique, offering a sensory and temporal experience that is constantly renewing itself.

The artist confronts the visitor with the immensity of a single moment in which time feels suspended. His work explores the boundary between art and the everyday. His repurposed objects, such as these bowls, are transformed into sophisticated instruments able to produce sounds without any human intervention.

The Bourse de Commerce becomes a space where we can lose ourselves in listening and contemplation, in which each spectator is invited to explore his or her own relationship to time and sound. With this installation, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot initiates a subtle dialogue between material, architecture, and the human presence. He creates an environment in which art is both an individual and a collective experience.

Curator : Emma Lavigne, directrice générale de la Collection, conservatrice générale