Live Art: Take Me (I’m Yours)

Who said you should never touch works of art? During the presentation of the exhibition Take Me (I’m Yours) at Monnaie de Paris in 2015, the museum’s galleries were emptied. The works on display were not for sale but offered for free to visitors who, toting large canvas bags handed out at the entrance, enthusiastically handled and carted away everything they could get their hands on. More than 20 years after the legendary Paris exhibition of the same name, conceived in 1994 by Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the project has been revisited and proves to be as topical as ever. In his film, Heinz Pierre Schwerfel combines commentary and works by the more than 20 artists featured in this exhibition, creating a timely conversation around contemporary art.