Céleste Richard-Zimmermann: Not all Columns Have a Heart of Stone

Since 2008, the Association des Amis du Palais de Tokyo has awarded an annual prize to an emerging artist, supporting and promoting contemporary artistic creation in France. Céleste Richard-Zimmermann’s winning project reflects on the symbols of power through a broken, unstable and hollow column. Sculptures, fragments and sound works form a space shaped by gestures of destruction and transformation, proposing a vision of a shared reality in ruins, where symbols of power collapse and the state of the world is met with an irreverent gaze.