Lygia Pape, Weaving space: a delicate exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce - our photos

The Bourse de Commerce presents "Weaving Space", the first French retrospective of Lygia Pape, a major figure of the Brazilian avant-garde, with an immersive light installation and emblematic works. On view from September 10, 2025 to January 26, 2026. The exhibition is part of the Brazil-France 2025 Season.

Ready to enter a living work of art? On the occasion of the Brazil-France 2025 Season, the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection unveils Tisser l'espace, the very first solo exhibition in France by Lygia Pape, a major Brazilian avant-garde artist, from September 10, 2025 to January 26, 2026.

Through this exhibition, Lygia Pape invites the public on a sensory journey, halfway between installation, abstraction and performance, and promises total immersion in a universe where materials give way to perceptions. Known for having profoundly shaken up the codes of modern art, she presents a living, interactive art form in which the viewer becomes an integral part of the work.

The flagship installation Ttéia 1, C welcomes you to a dimly lit room, where copper wires, stretched like rays of light, float in the air. As you wander around this work, your movements and the light transform the installation: it reveals itself, disappears, then reappears, always different. Here, space is no longer a simple container: it becomes matter, structure, language. You are invited to slow down, to feel, to weave your own relationship with the work.

An exhibition of prints, installations and experimental cinema

But Weaving Space doesn't stop there. Theexhibition unfolds a rich journey back to Lygia Pape's beginnings, notably through her abstract etchings, the founders of her visual language. These early works already reveal a desire to break away from the passivity of the gaze, by soliciting body movements and the play of light. A little further on, we explore the majestic Livre de la Nuit et du Jour (1963-1976), a plastic diary of his research into time, rhythm and contrasts.

In theAuditorium, a selection of experimental films extends this immersive experience. Here, Lygia Pape manipulates images as she does space: for her, art is not limited to one discipline, but embraces a multitude of media to better question life, its norms and tensions. If you're interested in the crossroads between contemporary art and social commitment, these films offer a powerful look at a Brazil in the throes of change, and an artist who has used her own weapons to respond to a tense political context.

Theexhibition is aimed at contemporary art enthusiasts as well as the curious looking for a new experience, both contemplative and physical. Whether you come with your family, as a couple, or with friends, Tisser l'espace offers you a moment of suspension, away from the hustle and bustle of Paris. Within the soothing confines of the Bourse de Commerce, art becomes a play of reflections, presence and absence, emptiness and tension.

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