The retrospective of Jim Shaw (1952, Midland, MI), contained over 150 artworks, drawings, paintings, and installations, and took up the entire fourth floor and five rooms of the second floor. The largest room on the second floor displayed his Thrift Store Paintings, a collection of 442 paintings that Shaw found in thrift stores. The artist explores the issues of his generation, particularly by critiquing the author’s status and, by extension, negotiating the loss of a work’s aura. In the profusion of images that the artist creates or collects, the viewer is placed in the uncomfortable position of being a judge of ideology. Shaw most often works with pieces that form part of a large corpus: My Mirage (1986–1991), for instance, is a vast fictional biography about a character named Billy that contains nearly 170 pieces. Since 1992, Shaw has been transcribing his dreams into drawings (Dream Drawings), and sculpting the works of art that come to him in his sleep (Dream Objects). In 2016, he donated the Thrift Store (Blue Room) (2000), presented in this exhibition, to the museum.

• Exhibition curated by Fabrice Stroun and organized in collaboration with Casino Luxembourg