Introduction

Since the mid-eighties, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's work has drawn a living memory of film, literature and the immersive structures of architecture and music as ways of exploring the possibilities of the artistic realm.

Through a maze of rooms, environments and passages, this exhibition, both retrospective and forward-looking, displays some thirty connected works in the Galerie Sud, the terraces of the museum's fifth floor and the Atelier Brancusi garden. Laying out an open time line in the space, which goes from 1887 to 2058 and broadens the limit of the retrospective, the exhibition Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. 1887–2058 combines different centuries and climates. Starting in the late 19th century, it moves through the experiences of the 20th and projects viewers into landscapes and interiors in turn tropical or desert like, biographical or imaginary.

This combination of parallel realities and staged sets—where the genres of landscape, portrait and period rooms coexist—becomes a fictional house with numerous entrances, constructed to question exterior and interior, absence and presence, identity and ction, the present moment and the exploration of time.

Sometimes stages, sometimes playgrounds, sometimes introspective narratives, the rooms, films and appearances of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster bring to life all kinds of cinematographic, literary and scientific presences, like an opera or musical, to create a world inhabited by sensations, stories and quotations.