Documentary film
Short documentary | Directed by Alex Salinas | Commissioned by the Louvre
Commissioned by the Louvre Museum, this short film documents a unique and temporary intervention by Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, who was invited to create a cycle of four murals directly onto the walls of the “rotonde Valentin,” a transitional space in the heart of the museum’s 17th-century painting galleries.
As director, I was tasked with capturing both the execution and atmosphere of this unprecedented gesture: the first contemporary wall painting made on-site in the Louvre in recent history. The film highlights the tension between permanence and impermanence, focusing on Tuymans’ conceptual approach to memory, erasure, and the museum as a layered historical space. It combines observational footage with subtle visual storytelling, staying true to the quiet power of Tuymans’ work and its fleeting presence within the museum walls, scheduled to be painted over by mid-2025.