Introduction

On view through the autumn and winter months, an immersive, cosmic, and nocturnal work by Anri Sala will be presented at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection.  In the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce Time No Longer, 2021, a film on vast, curved screens— marrying perfectly with the Rotunda’s cylindrical forms—is a recent work by the artist and this is its French premiere.

During the course of the exhibition there will be several events:
November 16: Anri Sala presents Long Pons Sorrow
November 18: Time No Longer: André Vida
January 5 and 6: Anri Sala presents Ravel Ravel Revisited

Time No Longer draws its inspiration from Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for part of its dramaturgy. Yet, here Sala orchestrates a new space-time: the soundtrack, arranged for clarinet and saxophone based on the solo The Abyss of the Birds, becomes a music for contemporary times. After its presentation in Houston, Kunsthaus Bregenz, and GAMeC, Bergamo (continuing through October 16, 2022), Time No Longer inscribes the convolutions of its infinite choreography into the circular space of the Rotunda, which seems, in turn, to be freed from earthly gravity, and engaged in perpetual movement.

Sala's works, including new works from the Maps / Species series, Take Over, 2017, Another Solo in the Doldrums (Extended Play), 2012, 1395 Days without Red, 2011, Nocturnes, 1999, will be on view throughout the building: in the vitrines in the passageway around the Rotunda; in the Gallery 2 space on the ground floor of the museum, as well as in the basement.

The dance of time and its ghosts, its embodiments and erasures are the themes that permeate the hanging entitled Une seconde d’éternité (A Second of Eternity), whose carte blanche to Anri Sala, forms a spectacular epilogue.