Le Bureau d’Échange
is an active installation, taking the form of an exchange kiosk where the artist invites visitors to produce a note that is then traded. The kiosk is saturated with information panels, objects, and notes issued by the artist, forming a reserve of value intrinsic to the device: an autonomous, fictional yet operative economy.

Through a simple negotiation protocol, the work shifts roles: the visitor becomes a participant, the artist a collector and merchant. The installation questions the mechanisms of valuation, exchange, and legitimation.
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