© Ariana Papademetropoulos
To celebrate its 230th anniversary, the Louvre welcomes 20 contemporary artists, each with a strong connection to the city of Paris. Louvre Looks, involves people under 40, giving them the opportunity to shoot a short video inside the museum, capturing the spectacular works to create extraordinary scenes with an almost surreal feel. Young artists from the worlds of painting, film, fashion or music have already made their mark in their fields, establishing themselves as protagonists of contemporary creativity. Along the process, they have made the museum their muse, showing in the video the Louvre’s collections to which they feel particularly attached through an entirely personal vision and interpretation. In three and a half minutes each of them experimented with different working methods, trying their hand with film crews or their personal cell phones, some during visiting hours during the day and others at night surrounded only by the works, using digital resources or focusing on their personal connection to their surroundings.