If you’re someone who loves to be in the nude, this new exhibition might just be for you. A museum in France is set to host a special exhibition where visitors are welcome to strip to enter.
MacLYON, the museum of contemporary art in Lyon, will introduce its latest exhibition, Incarnations, a two-part series that focuses on the presence of the body in the collection’s works. Once fully stripped, visitors are able to enjoy a 90-minute session that aims to move away from 17th-century French philosopher Rene Descartes’ defining statement, “I think, therefore I am.”
The works are intended to raise questions about bodies in a specific space and see how bodies interact with each other. What better way to do this than to be naked as the day you were born?
“Our idea is to question the issue of the body in a given space, to see how bodies interact with other bodies,” a spokesperson for the macLYON said.
“It’s interesting to experience an exhibition totally naked,” Frederic Martin, the branch chairman, added. “That makes us focus on our own perception of ourselves, with a social artifice.”
He also mentioned that naturists often stay out of the public so as “not to cause panic in politer society. But now we are coming out from behind our ramparts to say that the philosophy is doing very well.”
The first act of the body series runs until July 9, 2023, and the second act is set to begin in September, which will address the confrontation between the body and the environment.