21/09/17 - With this phrase, Christian Boltanski (Paris, 1944) shatters the sacredness of museums and invites us, at the Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, to a new experience: a take-away of what you like. To achieve this, he summoned several artists that do participatory art, like Félix González Torres (Cuba, 1957-1996), whose artwork "Untitled (Placebo)" is on display. The work is made of 40.000 candies wrapped in light blue paper which visitors can pick up and take. It represents the vision the artist had of his illness (HIV): the patient receives some treatments, but they mostly act like placebos, while as time goes by, life is consumed, just like visitors consume the artwork itself.

Untitled (Placebo), by Félix González Torres (1991)

There are also other artists with artworks that can be manipulated, such as the postcards by Fabio Kacero (Argentina, 1961) and Danh Vo (Vietnam, 1975), or Rachel Rose and Ian Cheng's fortune cookies.

Sin título (Untitled), by Rachel Rose e Ian Cheng (2016/2017)

Materials: fortune cookies and texts

Boltanski himself displays a mountain of used clothes, which proves how the artwork is physically scattered through fragmentation (each time a visitor takes a piece of clothing, the mountain changes its shape and that piece becomes true to its original purpose: to dress someone).

Dispersión, by Christian Boltanski (1991/2017)

Materials: used clothes and paper bags

With this project, under the name "Take me (I’m yours)", Boltanski, together with art critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, recreates and redefines the rules of art exhibitions. However, as Obrist explains, this exhibition is not a supermarket where we can take things without paying. It does not represent the hysteria of consumerism, but something much more solemn. 
This exhibition represents the kilometer 3,7 of the large Bienalsur Global.