Soto: A Kinetic Journey (Soto: une traversée cinétique), Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Architecture at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine

This important museum, known as the Cité de l’Architecture (City of Architecture), exhibits one of Jesús Soto’s most iconic and monumental works. It is the Penetrable BBL amarillo (Yellow Penetrable BBL) (1999). This demonstrates that the work holds both aesthetic and playful appeal within the Parisian context and forms part of a program focused on the dialogue between architecture and contemporary art, launched in 2025.
Its exhibition highlights not only its historical significance but also the artist’s ability to create a visual and tactile experience through the viewer’s body. The work was created to be walked through. In art, space and, consequently, time —the fourth dimension—are based on an active and unstable experience for anyone who passes through it. Within it, the viewer sensorially experiences the work’s transformation through its movement and vibratory effect, which underpins Soto’s unique kinetic approach.