Kimsooja didn’t  need to do much for her latest work at the Bourse de Commerce, the contemporary art museum opened in 2021 by billionaire François Pinault, one of France’s richest men. For her contribution to the Bourse’s current show Le Monde Comme Il Va (The World As It Is), the South Korean artist simply carpeted the centre of the building, a 29-metre-wide concrete cylinder, with 418 mirrors to form one big one.

Instead of sculpture or an installation, the artwork became the layer cake that is the museum, one of Paris’ newest drawcards, seen from below. At the rim is the underlip of the walkway that tops the concrete drum Japanese architect Tadao Ando added at the centre of the building. Next comes the 18th-century internal wall that is all that remains of the original corn exchange, followed by the cloud-strewn panorama of the world seen from colonial Paris that was added when it was rebuilt as the new stock exchange in the 1890s. And at the centre, like an unblinking eye, the building’s original 1812 glass-and-steel dome stares back at you via Kimsooja’s mirror of the times.