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Covivio, a signatory of the 1 immeuble, 1 œuvre Charter created by the French Ministry of Culture to encourage private actors to commission works from the French art scene. Covivio has selected the work of artist Luke James for the Beige building in Parc Monceau: Paris's first automatic telephone switchboard, whose interior architecture has been redesigned by Maison Sarah Lavoine. This place, steeped in memories of human communication and technical architecture, becomes the stage for a dialogue between construction and nature, geometry and vegetation, memory and the present. The ambition of this commission is twofold:


- To create a point of encounter and connection, an artwork that stimulates the imagination, encourages interaction, and enriches the everyday working environment of future tenants
- To accompany and extend the identity of the site by proposing a work in harmony with the building.


IDA presents the work of artist Luke James and coordinates the installation project, which blends into the garden in a spirit of sustainability and respect for the site. Inspired by the face of Janus, this complex of sculptures creates a dialogue between past and present, concrete and abstract, power and fragility. It invites visitors to an immersive experience where architecture, nature, and human figures come together to form a shared landscape.

Luke James, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Lyon (2015), is a contemporary artist collaborating with institutions : AIA DRAC Île-de-France, AIX DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Prix Révélation Emerige. His practice includes sculpture, photography, and painting, explores the poetry of gesture and the memory of forms, transforming everyday actions into introspective works. His works question our relationship to space, memory, and materiality, offering a reflection on human interactions and social structures. His art develops through pieces that function as fragmentary traces of the dissection of relationships between power dynamics and curiosity: humans, animals, architecture, and social classes are some of the components of the interactions observed and questioned by the artist on a daily basis. These reflections are nourished by a diligent reading of American and European literature and philosophy that depict pioneering attitudes and thoughts, offering a counterpoint to the prescriptions of modern Western society. His work combines a harsh minimalism, grounded in his Burgundian origins, with the legacy of American land art, evoking a form of obstinate neo-ruralism in the face of the ruins of the contemporary world.