MATHIAS KISS / Liquid Mirror
Mathias Kiss takes over the Petit Palais with a mirror installation which dialogues with the architecture of the place, transforming the reflection of visitors into a sensitive experience of movement and encounter.
Event information
Time: 2026-06-06 20:00 UTC – 2026-06-07 02:00 UTC
Place: Petit Palais - Musée des beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, 2 avenue Winston-Churchill, 75008, Paris
Price: Free
Tags: Art contemporain
About this event
Mathias Kiss thus transposes into the heritage space a syntax specific to the technological era: the pixel leaves the screen to become architectural material. Since 2008, he has developed a unique work Miroir Froissé, 90° series, Sky Painting exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo and at the Mobilier National. The mirror does not offer a new image: it captures the present. Where architecture asserts stability and permanence, Liquid Mirror suggests a transitory state, the monument does not transform, it seems momentarily crossed by a luminous phenomenon. His work blurs the boundaries between artistic craftsmanship, design and contemporary art, reinventing classic codes to sculpt spaces that challenge perception.
A project supported by the Loo&Lou Foundation for Contemporary Art, placed under the aegis of the Fondation de Luxembourg, with the participation of the Petit-Palais - Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris.
Visitors appear fragmented, superimposed, integrated into the work. Liquid Mirror, Installation / Wooden structure, mirror mosaic, 2026Mathias Kiss takes over the Petit Palais with Liquid Mirror, an in situ installation designed in dialogue with the architecture of the 1900 building. The installation presents itself as a fragmented mirror surface, composed of square modules which seem to liquefy and cross the space. In the context of a White Night placed under the sign of love, the work becomes a relational experience. Placed in the axis of The Allegory The Triumph of Women by Georges Picard, the installation dialogues with it. Organized according to a rigorous framework, this reflective material nevertheless adopts a fluid behavior: it descends, unfolds and extends to the ground as if the monument itself were moving. Love is not illustrated, it manifests itself in the shared reflection, in the superposition of silhouettes, in the presence of the other within the very image.
Mathias Kiss, French visual artist of Hungarian origin, born in 1972 in Poissy, lives and works in Paris. The painted ascension responds to a luminous fall; The fragmentation into modules evokes the logic of the pixel, the minimal unit of the digital image. Trained in the painting and restoration of Historical Monuments (Louvre Museum), he founded the Attilalou workshop in 2002. to the unified figure, a multiplied presence.
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