This is where we are
Palais de Tokyo•Apr 03, 2026 — Sep 13, 2026
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Accessibility can first and foremost be read in the architecture of a space. Are there steps before reaching the threshold that would prevent wheelchair users from entering? Must one take a separate, less visible route to access the premises?
Invited by Palais de Tokyo to intervene in one of its spaces that remains particularly inaccessible to people with reduced mobility, Joseph Grigely has chosen to directly engage with the challenge of making this space equally available to all audiences. What might emerge from a meeting between a staircase and a ramp at the entrance? Perhaps a new path—one that disabled and non-disabled visitors could share, rather than navigate separately.
Through a series of works and a risograph-printed publication, the artist sets out to imagine and design what he calls an “architectural prosthesis”—a conceptual and material tool through which to explore both his own slow and difficult ascent within the art world, and to propose new ways to make that path more…
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This is where we are
Palais de Tokyo•Apr 03, 2026 — Sep 13, 2026
Press Release
Accessibility can first and foremost be read in the architecture of a space. Are there steps before reaching the threshold that would prevent wheelchair users from entering? Must one take a separate, less visible route to access the premises?
Invited by Palais de Tokyo to intervene in one of its spaces that remains particularly inaccessible to people with reduced mobility, Joseph Grigely has chosen to directly engage with the challenge of making this space equally available to all audiences. What might emerge from a meeting between a staircase and a ramp at the entrance? Perhaps a new path—one that disabled and non-disabled visitors could share, rather than navigate separately.
Through a series of works and a risograph-printed publication, the artist sets out to imagine and design what he calls an “architectural prosthesis”—a conceptual and material tool through which to explore both his own slow and difficult ascent within the art world, and to propose new ways to make that path more…



































