Daniel Buren: Comme un jeu d’enfant, 2014/2026

An emblematic work by Daniel Buren, "Comme un jeu d’enfant" was originally created at the Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg in 2014 and later presented in Naples, Aguascalientes, Sydney and Daegu. At Les Moulins, it reflects key principles of Buren’s practice: site-specificity, the dialogue between geometric forms and architecture, the use of colour and the visitor’s experience.

Conceived as an autonomous journey within the group exhibition, the installation takes the form of a vast landscape of geometric wooden modules—cubes, cylinders, arches, pyramids and parallelepipeds—inspired by children’s construction games and enlarged to human scale. No longer toys, yet not quite architecture, these forms occupy an intermediate space in which sculpture becomes an environment to be experienced.

Structured through a process of assembly, the modules create paths, passages, thresholds and viewpoints. A chromatic duality organises the installation: one section, entirely white, suspends the reading of forms, while another, composed of vivid colours, recalls the visual language of educational games.

Visitors are invited to move freely through the installation, with movement gradually revealing new perspectives, alignments and visual relationships. The work thus becomes a dynamic field of perception.