Léa Lublin
Exhibition scenography and publication
- Date
- November 2025
- Context
- School project — individual work
- Location
- Le Havre — Fort de Tourneville
- Type
- Publication
- Keywords
- Exhibition designPublishingVisitor interpretationImmersive routeGraphic design
We had to select pieces by the artist Léa Lublin, create a fictional exhibition of her work and give it a name. We then had to choose the exhibition space at the Fort de Tourneville in Le Havre and propose a coherent narrative within it.
Intention
I named this exhibition “La Révolte de Léa Lublin” (Léa Lublin's Revolt) because her work struck me as a true cry from the heart and an urgent need to change things.
Route and works
I selected five emblematic works by Léa Lublin, spread throughout the Fort de Tourneville. This layout serves a dual purpose: introducing visitors to a little-known part of Le Havre's heritage, steeped in history, while echoing the artist's participatory works. By scattering the stops between the Tetris hall, the covered courtyard and the open courtyards, visitors become actors in their own visit, invited to move around and physically experience Léa Lublin's approach.
Voir Clair : La Gioconda aux Essuies-Glace
Location: Tetris hall
A reproduction of the Mona Lisa under glass, fitted with windscreen wipers and a water bulb. Displayed alone on a large, brightly lit white wall, it reinterprets the Louvre's scenography and invites the public to pump the water to see clearly through the sacred effigy.
Mon Fils
Location: Main gallery
A performance in which the artist installs her child and his bed at the heart of the museum. The extended space creates a gradual distancing: visitors choose whether or not to enter the intimacy of this artistic and maternal act.
Dedans / Dehors le musée
Location: Covered courtyard & courtyards
An interdisciplinary installation linking outside and inside. Under the covered courtyard, passers-by walk through the suspended works, desacralising the cultural institution and making it available to all.
Interrogations sur l’art
Location: Fort esplanade
A large banner printed with questions about art, installed in public space. Psychoanalytic couches welcome passers-by, filmed as they answer the question: “What is art?”
Dissolution dans l’eau
Location: Pool & outer courtyard
The culmination of the route: a banner of sexist stereotypes is immersed and dissolved, symbolising a healthy letting go, so that visitors leave with a liberated view of the world.
The gallery guide
The wish to make visitors feel Léa Lublin's creative approach is reflected in the arrangement of the works, but also in the interpretation materials.
The interactive label
Echoing her own gesture in the Mona Lisa with windscreen wipers, where visitors had to work the wiper to “see clearly”, the labels in this exhibition only reveal their content after an active gesture from the viewer. Pulling the tab engages visitors in a concrete act: the meaning of the work is revealed through their intervention rather than received passively. Pink was chosen for the materials to detach this colour from the stigmatising connotation usually associated with it, and turn it into a vehicle for committed affirmation.
1. Voir Clair : La Gioconda aux Essuies-Glace
Interactive installation — 1965 — 67.0 × 49.0 × 12.0 cm