This fall Nancy Holt's 1972 work Locators with Loci is on view in the exhibition Minimal at the Bourse de Commerce, opening October 8, 2025. The Bourse de Commerce will host a major exhibition dedicated to Minimal art, bringing together an exceptional group of works from the Pinault Collection in dialogue with those of prestigious collections. Minimal traces the diversity of this movement since the 1960s, when a whole generation of artists initiated a radical approach to art. The exhibition is curated by Jessica Morgan, director of Dia Art Foundation, who has selected over a hundred works by some forty international artists.

Locators with Loci belongs to series of sculptures that began in 1971 when Nancy Holt made her first sculptures—“seeing devices” drawing attention to visual perception and place. The Locators, as she named them, comprise industrial piping welded into a T-shape, made to be viewed through with one eye to direct attention to the time-bound processes of vision. Holt described, “I woke up one morning, I went to a welding place, made some of these Locator pieces, and overnight I had produced physical objects. They weren't things that you looked at, but they were things you looked through. I would zero in on something you wouldn't notice at all until you looked through my Locator, and then you would be kind of startled.” The Locators directly develop from Holt’s experiments with photography, and they provide a means to locate perception

Nancy Holt expanded the visual language in her Locators through the use of mirrors and what she called “Loci”—painted ellipses that resolve into perfect black circles edged with a ring of light when looking through the Locators. She experimented with Loci this first in Locator (Studio Corner) in her New York City studio in 1971, and later in 1972 with Dual Locators, Locator with Mirror, and Locators with Loci. 

Locators with Loci brings together a group of four Locators whose viewpoint shifts in angle and distance from the wall. Each Locator looks to a painted black Loci, which graduate from a perfect circle to an elongated ellipse. Although the shapes on the wall shift are not identical, when one looks through each Locator they see a perfect black circle edged by a ring of light, an experience to seeing a full moon on a clear night or an eclipse.

Nancy Holt's Locators with Loci is on view in Minimal at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris through January 18, 2026.