An icon with an inimitable style, Louise Nevelson is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's major sculptors. Her work invites us to move through a history of the arts in which dance and performance - around which the exhibition is structured - play a leading role. Thirty years after her death, her legacy continues to resonate with the young contemporary scene, even in the world of fashion.

Fifty years after his last exhibition in France, in 1974 at the Centre national d'art et de culture, the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz invites visitors to immerse themselves in his multiple atmospheres, in the hope of fulfilling Nevelson's wish to present his sculptures as part of a total space, a narrative opening the doors to his imaginary world, an experience to be lived with all the senses, rather than as individual entities.

The reconstitution of her environments underlines the fluidity between the multiple media she used, from her first figures in terracotta and paint, to her prints and sculptures in Plexiglas, to her installations, not forgetting the collages - the true matrix of her art - which she composed from the 1950s to the end of her life.