Organized in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre and curated for the second year by Annabelle Ténèze, Director of the Louvre-Lens Museum, an exhibition of public artworks will unfold across the Tuileries Garden, in the center of Paris.

‘Echoing the Jardin des Tuileries itself – a landscaped garden and historic walking spot in the center of Paris – ‘La Cinquième Saison’ (‘The Fifth Season’) explores the garden as a mineral, aquatic, vegetal, animal, and human space of activity and cohabitation. The exhibition brings together 26 artists of different generations from across the world, whose artworks seem to be objects imbued with life. In a world in the throes of profound transformation, between environmental necessity and the preservation of heritage, the artists draw our attention to the way the garden moves and to the life within. They invite us to meet the animals that wander there and the plants that grow; to discover from where the water flows and the tree roots emerge; to question where things come from; to notice how stones come alive and how energy can be found in the in-between spaces. Working with the landscape itself, these artists highlight our interdependency – the strengths and weaknesses of our coexistence. For them, the issue of habitat and the necessity of cohabitation in our earthly community is ever-present, and this mysterious ‘fifth season’ should be designed and lived together.’