 My name is Suzanne Cotter and I'm the Director of Modern Luxembourg. We're presenting the exhibition of the work of Yurtokerta here in the museum. It's the largest retrospective that's ever been dedicated to her painting and it covers a period that dates from the 1980s to the present. Yurtokerta is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and influential painters of today. Her painting is exciting, it's exuberant, it's demanding, it's intellectually fulfilling and it's wildly diverse. Well one of my favourite works in the exhibition is actually a body of work which has the title after which the exhibition is named which is Tour de Madame and that is presented here in this gallery. It's a suite of 15 paintings that are presented on two semi-circular structures which are made of glass and they're anchored by metal. The structures are a framing device for the painting. The result is something rather wonderful because it's quite theatrical I think, it's like a stage of painting but it also presents these 15 canvases, 12 of which are presented on one side, they face us as we enter the gallery and three other canvases on the back side of the glass screens and they welcome us as we enter in from either side of the gallery and these are actually presented in a floating arrangement such that depending on your position in the space you are seeing different paintings in conversation with one another but then each painting itself occupies its own place and we can consider the painting, we can reflect on it and we can appreciate it but there are many different narratives that exist there's the narrative of the entire work which constitutes a sort of mini retrospective a very condensed retrospective of Utikata's painterly language across 40 years but presented through each of these individual works so it's a suite but then each work itself is a world.