Yoko Ono's lumière de l'aube
With less than a year to go before we leave Lyon, we have renewed our annual museum cards for the final time. These cards give us access to six galleries and museums around the city. They are great value and having them provides an extra push to trek to galleries at the weekends.
This Sunday we visited our nearest gallery, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (MAC). This typically challenging destination was hosting an exhibit by Yoko Ono. For once an artist’s name that I recognised. Being a contemporary gallery, and combined with my lack of recent art knowledge, visiting tends to be a gamble. We have seen some very strange exhibits at MAC. This is not your typical paintings on a wall type of place.
Despite some irksome security theatre, I was allowed to photograph and film freely. The organisers explicitly asked shared content to be tagged with #YokoOnoLyon; so, I have.
A short film of Yoko Ono’s lumière de l’aube show is embedded below and on my YouTube channel:
Putting together a film without a story is difficult. You have nothing to edit around and nothing to travel through the footage with. What I ended up with is more a memory of our visit, than a gripping short film. Music certainly helps bind it together. In this case the music is Before I Sleep by Muciojad (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Nails in a Conference Table
We enjoyed the exhibit asking us to hammer a nail into a conference table. Others had taken to hammering nails into the walls and anything else they could lodge the nail into. A sign noted that because the gallery refused liability and responsibility for the public’s actions, you were thus free to augment the table.
Halved
The halved dining room table and accompanying place settings was surprisingly engaging.
Mixed Bag
The exhibit was enjoyable. The tone of the first floor was fun and engaging. The last exhibits were somber and dark in tone. We left wondering if that content would have been better on the middle floor. Something to give us time to recover before leaving the gallery.
I did get to go on a tiny slide built into a wall. That was fun.
