Sculpture, painting, drawing and sound from C.H.A.I.S.E.S. — The Social Geometry of the Luxembourg Gardens, shown at 24 rue Chapon, Paris, 20–22 October 2026. Every work below can be acquired; write to us about any of them.
Four sculptures, one per scenario. Height is time: each strand is one chair across a single afternoon. Shown as 3D-printed exhibition prints; each is also cast in bronze to order. Images: renderings of the bronze edition.
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Sun-Worshippers, 2026
Les Adorateurs du soleil
3D-printed PLA 13 1/8 × 6 3/4 × 6 3/4 in (33.2 × 17 × 17 cm) Ed. of 5 + 1 AP; also cast in bronze to order, ed. of 5 + 1 AP
Two chairs follow the sun round the Grand Bassin, two until six.
Life drawings, made in the garden in July, of the arrangements visitors leave behind, fixed by their shadows. In the Kinetic Scrolls, a roller chain moves drawn figures across a painted scene so viewers compose their own.
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Kinetic Scroll No. 1, 2026
Wood, linseed oil paint, oil on canvas, graphite on muslin, poly-mesh, roller chain 24 × 18 7/8 × 5 7/8 in (61 × 48 × 15 cm)
Painted scene shown: four green chairs grouped, one apart.
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Kinetic Scroll No. 2, 2026
Wood, linseed oil paint, oil on canvas, graphite on muslin, poly-mesh, roller chain 24 × 18 7/8 × 5 7/8 in (61 × 48 × 15 cm)
Painted scene shown: two chairs side by side on an ochre ground.
Ink and coloured pencil on kraft paper 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 in (14.8 × 21 cm) · framed 8 × 10 in (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
A pair of chairs in dappled shade, more beyond.
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Chairs Under Shade No. 3, 2026
Ink and coloured pencil on kraft paper 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 in (14.8 × 21 cm) · framed 8 × 10 in (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Two chairs under a tree, the shadow broken by leaves.
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Chairs Under Shade No. 4, 2026
Ink and coloured pencil on kraft paper 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 in (14.8 × 21 cm) · framed 8 × 10 in (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Four chairs gathered under foliage.
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Jessica Anne Schwartz
In 2023 Jessica Anne Schwartz made the Luxembourg's Sénat chairs a fixed listening post: her Jardin du Luxembourg Synaesthesia Drawings transcribe the garden's soundscape — children at play, birdsong, wind and rain — in sumi ink, walnut ink, mica and gouache on Murillo paper. Twelve drawings from the series.
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Jardin du Luxembourg Synaesthesia Drawing #1, 2023
Sumi ink, walnut ink, mica and hand-mixed gouache on heirloom Murillo paper 19 1/2 × 14 in (49.5 × 35.6 cm) · framed 25 5/8 × 19 11/16 in (65 × 50 cm)
A used Sénat chair, borrowed from the Jardin du Luxembourg itself, suspended and played with earth magnets and a resonator, so that its steel frame becomes a resonating body. The installation is completed by a Manifesto-Score for the chairs as monuments to gathered time.
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076 Urban Songline (Chaises du Temps Réel), 2026
Latitude: 48.849093° N – 48.844044° N / Longitude: 2.338981° E – 2.332683° E