Following the exhibition "Pierre Mercier, Nothing Has Ever Stopped Starting", organized by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, LaM proposes to rediscover the artist’s work from the angle of the laboratory. Pierre Mercier, les règles du jeu" invites us to analyze the artist’s experiments in the manner of a work in progress ranging from documents and drawings never exhibited to projects reactivated on this occasion. It is also an opportunity to rethink the monumental sculpture "La pensée du sage est un perpetual banquet", 1991, from the LaM collection, in a digital form and to question the archive and transmission of works of art performed as "La Promenade obscure" of 2015.
The exhibition will be punctuated with meetings (Cité-Philo, study day, performances) to make dialogue philosophers and writers, art historians and artists around the question of the game and its rules within the work of artist and teacher of Pierre Mercier.