Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to welcome Harry Nuriev and the Sultana Gallery (Paris) for Art Basel Paris.
Harry Nuriev presents Objets Trouvés (2025), a participatory installation transforming the Petits-Augustins chapel into a space for circulation and exchange. Carefully aligned supermarket boxes are filled with objects brought in by visitors. Each person leaves an object they no longer need and takes another left by someone else. Each contribution is certified as a work of art, and at the end of the exhibition, all exchanges will be compiled in a Yellow Pages-style directory, transforming this ephemeral process into a permanent archive.
Harry Nuriev describes his practice as Transformism—the reinvention of everyday materials to give them new functions and meanings. With Objets Trouvés, he extends this philosophy into a collective dimension, where the simple act of exchange becomes social interaction as much as artistic creation.
This is the fourth project in the Public Program organized by Art Basel Paris in collaboration with the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
A mediation program will be provided every day from October 21 to 26, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. by students from the École du Louvre.
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