A museum in France is apparently going to make an exhibition available to guests who must strip naked in order to enjoy the event. There will also be drinks and a talk following the exhibit, to discuss the experience, per the Daily Mail.
The event is set to take place at the macLYON, a moniker for the museum of contemporary art in Lyon. The exhibit is reportedly part of a series of two acts that focuses on the body, meant to challenge the 17th-century philosophical phrase coined by Frenchman René Descartes: “I think, therefore I am.”
The nude visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy the 90-minute session beginning on Thursday. The impetus behind the project is apparently to inform people that they are above their bodies, and that there is no such thing as a “pure” thought that exists independent of the organism that thinks, perceives, and experiences the world around them.
A spokesman for the museum told The Times that their “idea is to question the issue of the body in a given space, to see how bodies interact with other bodies.”
The museum is apparently putting the event together with the regional branch of the French Naturist Federation, with tickets costing €11 (~$12). Frédéric Martin, the French Naturist’s branch chairman, said that it is “interesting to experience an exhibition totally naked. That makes us focus on our own perception of ourselves, with a social artifice.”
The Daily Mail noted that the first act of the Incarnations will run until July 9, with the works on display reaching all the way back to the 1960s, which is apparently meant to display the human body in its physical truth or reality.
However, the second act of the production will not begin until September 2023. It is set to take place within the same space, but it will explore the body’s relationship to the environment, per the report.
There are about 2.6 million naturists in France, and the event is an attempt to try to capture the attention of these individuals.
