Alberta Pane Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Hypnotic show (in pictures) by British artist Marcos Lutyens in its Parisian venue, accompanied by a text by curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas.

This solo exhibition plunges us into the world of hypnosis, tracing the history and creative mechanisms of the Hypnotic show performance series through archives such as sketchbooks, notes, a video and previously unseen artworks.

Conceived and first realized in 2008 by Lutyens and Raimundas Malašauskas, Hypnotic show is a performance project in the form of a “temporary social structure where we engage in cognitive creative acts during a collective practice of art and hypnosis”.

Spectators are invited to take part in an artist-led hypnosis session, during which the artist transposes an exhibition and works of art directly into the minds of participants. The Hypnotic show is collaborative and scalable: many artists have contributed their own hypnosis session scripts, conceiving them as works of art in their own right, but completely materialized.

Since its creation, this project has travelled the world, visiting the São Paulo Biennale, the Kadist Foundation in Paris and San Francisco, Documenta 13 in Kassel and the Guggenheim in New York.