IN-SITU: field notes on Untitled (2011), by Urs Fischer, at the Pinault Collection's ouverture exhibition

Abstract

In the context of the exhibition Ouverture, the inaugural show of the Pinault Collection in its Parisian space, the Bourse de Commerce, this paper aims to reflect on the conceptual dimensions the extent, but also the limits of the category In-situ, used as a narrative resource, both curatorial and museological, in the institutionalization of works related to architectural space. Anchored in the idea of site-specific, and more specifically in the concept of site-specificity, we will take the artwork Untitled (2011), by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, as a heuristic example of such transformations.