Scope and Contents Internet: Michel Francois, born in 1956 in Saint-Trond (Belgium) has participated in the Venice Biennial (1999), in Documenta 9, Kassel (1992) and has shown his work at many solo and group shows around the world. The Institut d'art contemporain presented Plans d'evasion, the first large monographic exhibition of Michel Francois' work produced jointly with the S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent. This collaboration between the S.M.A.K. and the IAC shows their common interest in monographic exhibitions, that is to say directly with the artist, providing him with the space, the time and the means to show work in all its complexity. It also allowed the publication of the first retrospective catalogue of the artist's work, an occasion to take full measure of what he has done since the 1980s. Symmetry is a fundamental element in the relation between Michel Francois and the two exhibition spaces. At the Institute, he uses this feature while readapting the presentation of...