Color interior of Le Magasin de Ben in Paris, a dense assemblage of found objects, handwritten French signs, tools, masks, and painted boards lining a narrow corridor leading to a bright doorway.

Le Magasin de Ben — Assemblage Art Installation, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

Every surface in Ben Vautier's Magasin speaks at once. Handwritten French text covers the lintels and beams; found objects, tools, signs, and ceramic masks stack floor to ceiling in dense, deliberate layers. The installation is both shop and manifesto — objects priced and questioned in the same breath, the boundary between art and commerce dissolved somewhere inside the clutter. Fluxus thinking made physical: nothing is inert, everything is a proposition.

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