Les Vivres de l'Art

This guide to Les Vivres de l'Art in Bordeaux follows a short-term permit that never really ended. In 2003 sculptor Jean-Francois Buisson asked the city for a few months' use of one pavilion in an eighteenth-century complex built to provision the king's navy, meaning only to weld there briefly. His habit of giving scrap metal a second life, from restaurant chairs to church fixtures, echoes the fate of the pavilion he never left.