Alix Boillot - Farewell Beauty

Jul 4, 2026 – Nov 8, 2026

Straddling classicism and contemporaneity, natural landscape and site-specific installation, Alix Boillot’s photographs remain the only tangible traces of the Doric columns she sculpted in the snow. In his treatise on architecture, De architectura, Vitruvius lays out the principle of the superimposition of the three classical orders: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas—strong (or durable), useful, and beautiful. These ephemeral and fragile snow sculptures aspire only to beauty.This presentation is