Lévitation. Mathieu Forget, 10 ans de photographies

Through this exhibition, Mathieu Forget presents a selection of iconic photographs taken around the world. Each artwork reflects an ongoing exploration of movement, composition, and the relationship between the body and its environment.

Installed Sur les grilles de la Tour Saint-Jacques, the exhibition offers an encounter between heritage and contemporary creation. In this exceptional setting, the photographs dialogue with Parisian architecture and offer visitors an open, free, and accessible experience.

LEVITATION invites everyone to slow down, observe, and look differently. Because beyond the physical performance, these images tell a universal aspiration: that of rising, if only for an instant.

Between earth and sky…

The Tour Saint-Jacques occupies a singular place in the Parisian landscape. An isolated monument at the heart of the city, it seems to rise from the urban space toward the sky.

This relationship between grounding and elevation is also at the core of Mathieu Forget's work. Through his levitation photographs created without digital trickery, the artist captures that fragile instant when the body momentarily escapes the laws of gravity. His images stage a state of suspension echoing the very presence of the Tour Saint-Jacques: a vertical architecture defying the gaze and seeming to float above the urban bustle.

Presented on the gates surrounding the monument, the photographs create a natural dialogue between heritage and contemporary creation. They invite passersby to look up, slow their pace, and cast a fresh eye on the city. For beyond photography, it is indeed the same idea that unites the artist and the site: that of elevation as an aesthetic, physical, and poetic experience.

Exhibition layout

The tour brings together 44 photographs selected from the most striking works of Mathieu Forget.

Taken across several continents over the past ten years, they testify to a body of work built around a single obsession: capturing the moment when the body seems suspended in space. Each photograph reveals a conversation between movement and its environment.

Architecture, landscape, light, and geometry become partners in an ephemeral choreography.

The tour thus invites visitors to explore several dimensions of the work:

• Movement as a universal language.

• The body as living architecture.

• Photography as time compression.

• Travel as a field of experimentation.

• Gravity as an artistic medium.

Presented outdoors, the images engage directly in dialogue with the city. They offer visitors a free experience where the urban space itself becomes an integral part of the exhibition.