As part of the group exhibition “Corps et âmes”, Ali Cherri took over the Passage of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. The twenty-four display windows – a quintessential museum device – evoke for the artist the twenty-four frames per second that create the illusion of movement in cinema, thereby “bringing to life” the works on display like ghostly flashes between reality and fiction, past and present. The windows showcase hybrid sculptures combining archaeological artefacts with the artist’s own creations, offering a reflection on the consequences of their handling (spoliation, trafficking, appropriation…).

“The grafts I perform in my series of sculptures are a form of solidarity between broken, fragmented, violated bodies that, by fusing together, create a community,” explains the artist, who draws on Jean Cocteau’s surrealist film Le Sang d'un poète (1930) as a guiding thread and a symbol of transition from one world to another.

This leporello was published on the occasion of the exhibition Twenty-Four Ghosts per Second by Ali Cherri in the display windows of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, from March 5 to August 25, 2025.