Video Wall at Centre Pompidou, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

A 4×3 Samsung video wall suspended in the lobby of the Centre Pompidou displays a lush, painterly forest scene — tall green trees rendered in what reads unmistakably as Hockney's hand. The industrial steel-and-panel ceiling of the Pompidou frames the screen from above, grounding the digital work inside one of Paris's most structurally expressive buildings. Digital image and raw architecture hold the same space, each refusing to yield to the other.