The Missing Piece
Louise Perrussel

The Missing Piece is an invitation to explore our physical relationship with artworks. Whether instinctive, mundane, playful, or conventional, touch becomes a mode of interaction in its own right: a gesture of intimacy, appropriation, and care. The boundaries between artwork, body, and object—between the living and the inanimate—blur. The sculptures seem to be waiting to be activated: perhaps, then, the missing piece is the visitors’ own gesture.

The installation offers new ways of relating to the artworks and the exhibition space, driven by a desire for desacralization and horizontality. The idea of transitioning from one perception to another also aligns perfectly with Louise Perrussel’s work, which explores the porosity between object, artwork, and body, as well as transitions from one status to another. Economics is conceived here beyond its monetary dimension: it includes the forms of attention, care, relationship, and imagination that structure collective life.

Born in 1998 in Rennes, Louise Perrussel lives and works in Nantes. A graduate of the Lorient School of Fine Arts (2021) and the Nantes School of Fine Arts (2023), she is currently an artist-in-residence at the Millefeuilles studios. She held her first solo exhibition at the Vitrines d’Open It in 2025 and will soon have another at l’Attrape-Couleurs in 2026. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions (CAC Brétigny; 100% L’Expo, La Villette; Centre Fernand Léger; Galerie Paradise…) and two-person shows (Galerie Hors-Champ; Orangerie du Thabor). In 2026, she will be in residence at l'Usine Utopik and for Création en cours (Atelier Médicis).