The Grand Illusion

15th Lyon Biennale, September 2019-January 2020

Collaboration with Lenka Clayton

The Grand Illusion is a daily performance where the rhythms of labor, art and magic overlapped. Exhibition guards from the Biennale were trained by a professional magician to perform a magical trick. Each day, at a time of their choosing, a guard swapped their biennale uniform for a magician’s costume and performed an unexpected act of magic.

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Curated by Yoann Gourmel, Palais de Tokyo

With the participation of the Veduta team and magicians from the integration project Veduta / Biennale de Lyon

Acknowledgements : Anne-Marie Pupier, Christian Zeppa and the attending team of the integration project : Fatou Bamba, Casimir Bonnel Omari, Ling Curty, Chimène Gbading, Ouafa Ghrissi, Alexandrine Guerrier, Maya Khalaf, Yacob Okbanderias, Jean-Marc Vurbier