"We wanted to do, for the first time, a video portrait of this garden-the largest in the centre of Paris, and the only attached institutionally to a major museum."
"Fifty-two weeks and 52 videos-we could follow the life of the garden for an entire year, across the four seasons,"
"After that, the videos were removed from the Instagram channel and Mohamed turned them into a stand-alone piece, for which he also composed the music, recording the vibrations of the plants of the garden."
"Mohamed was the right artist; he is one of the greatest video artists of our time, has engaged with the logics [workings] of garden, as well as with the history of art that the Louvre embodies,"
The Musée du Louvre acquired Les 4 temps, a video work by Algeria-born artist Mohamed Bourouissa. The piece focuses on the Tuileries Gardens and will be shown in the Salle de la Chapelle overlooking the garden from 22 October to 19 January 2026. The work connects to Bourouissa's life through distant views of the 4 Temps mall in La Défense, where he was raised. Between February 2024 and February 2025 the Louvre published a new Bourouissa video each week on Instagram, reaching millions; those 52 videos were then consolidated into a stand-alone work with music composed by Bourouissa and recordings of plant vibrations. The video entered the collection under the histoire du Louvre programme as a contemporary work reflecting the institution's history, and museum leadership described Bourouissa as a leading video artist who engages with garden logics and the Louvre's art history.
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