Luz Broto – Put Oneself in the Place of the Other, 2026

Since 2014, Luz Broto has been developing Put Oneself in the Place of the Other as an evolving series of protocols that invite people to exchange places in everyday life. Participants swap house keys, exchange homes, retrace another person’s daily route or temporarily assume one another’s routines. “What I do,” she says, is “to generate the conditions for something to happen, for a new situation, thought, feeling to exist.” The publication presented here brings together protocols from 2014 to 2022, a selection of which appears at the sites across Lyon marked on the map shown here. Each begins with an existing situation and introduces a subtle shift that alters how it is experienced. The gesture is often small, sometimes almost imperceptible, yet afterwards familiar places and routines can no longer be experienced in quite the same way.

Subtle shifts within social and spatial structures characterise Luz Broto’s site-specific interventions. Working within public space, she creates situations that invite individuals to exchange roles, routines, or positions, thereby revealing underlying systems of organisation and control. Her practice is grounded in minimal gestures of perceptual displacements, questioning notions of access, responsibility and collective behaviour while making the implicit rules governing everyday interactions visible.