The Imagine Institute, kamel mennour gallery and Christie’s France are joining together in defence of excellence, openness, and creativity, for an exceptional auction, with all profits going to the Imagine Institute, a unique centre for research, care, and teaching around genetic disorders in children and adults.

All funds raised will be invested in research and the development of new treatments. For every donation of 500 €, the DNA of a patient expecting a diagnosis can be sequenced. In support of the families, doctors, and researchers committed to curing genetic diseases, François Morellet and Kamel Mennour have already donated a monumental installation, 3 arcs de néon inclinés à 0º-90º-45º, for one of the three walls giving onto the Imagine Institute garden. The current heartfelt initiative follows on from this initial action, and aims to raise essential funds for the Institute.

It has been made possible thanks to the generosity of a number of artists from the international contemporary arts scene, including Mohamed Bourouissa, Marie Bovo, Daniel Buren, Latifa Echakhch, Camille Henrot, Huang Yong Ping, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Tadashi Kawamata, Lee Ufan, Claude Lévêque, Philippe Parreno, and Martial Raysse; and of personalities who have all agreed to put some unique experiences under the hammer, including Azzedine Alaïa, Éric Cantona, Peter Lindbergh, Benjamin Millepied, François Pinault, Teddy Riner, and Gad Elmaleh, who will do us the honour of playing our master of ceremonies.