Through this exhibition, Mathieu Forget presents a selection of emblematic photographs taken around the world. Each work bears witness to a constant exploration of movement, composition and the relationship between the body and its environment.
Installed on the railings of the Tour Saint-Jacques, the exhibition offers an encounter between heritage and contemporary creation. In this exceptional setting, the photographs engage in dialogue with Parisian architecture and offer visitors a free, open and accessible experience.
LEVITATION invites everyone to slow down, observe and look differently. For beyond physical performance, these images tell of a universal aspiration: that of rising up, if only for a moment.
Between earth and sky…
The Tour Saint-Jacques occupies a singular place in the Parisian landscape. An isolated monument at the heart of the city, it seems to emerge from urban space to rise toward the sky.
This relationship between anchoring and elevation is also at the heart of Mathieu Forget's work. Through his levitation photographs, made without digital trickery, the artist captures that fragile instant when the body momentarily escapes the laws of gravity. His images stage a state of suspension that echoes the very presence of the Tour Saint-Jacques: a vertical architecture that defies the gaze and seems to float above urban agitation.
Presented on the railings surrounding the monument, the photographs create a natural dialogue between heritage and contemporary creation. They invite passers-by to look up, to slow their pace and to see the city with fresh eyes. For beyond photography, it is indeed one and the same idea that connects the artist and the site: that of elevation as an aesthetic, physical and poetic experience.
Exhibition route
The route brings together 44 photographs selected from among Mathieu Forget's most striking works.
Taken across several continents over the past ten years, they bear witness to a body of work built around a single obsession: capturing the instant when the body seems suspended in space. Each photograph reveals a conversation between movement and its environment.
Architecture, landscape, light and geometry become the partners of an ephemeral choreography.
The route thus invites exploration of several dimensions of the work:
• Movement as a universal language.
• The body as living architecture.
• Photography as compression of time.
• Travel as a field of experimentation.
• Gravity as artistic material.
Presented outdoors, the images enter directly into dialogue with the city. They offer visitors a free experience in which urban space itself becomes an integral part of the exhibition.