Eva Jospin - "Panorama" Spatial Installation in the Cour Carrée of the Louvre

Text and photos by Chen Chi-Hsiang. Dates: April 12 to August 28. Location: The central area of the Cour Carrée at the Louvre, behind the pyramid. Alongside the JR-Louvre exhibition, another young French sculptor, Eva Jospin (born 1975), exhibited here. She used the round fountain in the center of the courtyard as a site for a spatial installation, constructing an octahedral cube building using glass mirrors that reflected the Louvre itself. This octahedral structure blended into the landscape, echoing Klee’s words: “Art does not make the visible, but makes visible.” Inside this eight-sided building was installed a black forest constructed from cardboard, guiding viewers toward a spiritual state and magical atmosphere.

Eva Jospin is the daughter of a former Socialist Party Prime Minister. She is famous for her relief sculptures of forest facades made from cut cardboard. Her forests embody not only wilderness but also testing spaces, recalling places of pursuit and knowledge, shaping collective imagination, belief, and traditional stories. She stated: “My forests are entirely spiritual and non-figurative; they reflect human concerns: getting lost or finding one’s way, relating to childhood stories like Bambi or Hansel and Gretel, ancient fears of imaginary forests... which facilitate psychological journeys elsewhere.” (Note: Information sourced from Eva Jospin’s Wikipedia page.)