By Marilyn Bauer
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Marie-Ange Guilleminot (born 1960, France)

Marie-Ange Guilleminot likes to make contact with her audience, which is why opening night visitors to the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art will find her "Paravent" a place to get a foot massage.

A steel and teak pavilion that is actually a wooden folded screen set up in a circle, "Paravent" has had a number of incarnations. In addition to Cincinnati's foot reflexology center, it has also been used for a Japanese tea ceremony and a jazz concert.

Visitors will be invited to sit on chairs outside the structure and to put their feet through the holes in the exterior. From inside the wooden circle, massage therapists will rub the viewer's feet.

Her second piece, "Oursin (sea urchin)", was inspired by the leaves of the ancient Gingko Biloba tree and named for the marine animal it most resembles when folded. Composed of light but sturdy Tybek material, the circle of paper can be transformed into a cloak, a satchel or a parachute.

At the center, it will be a roof and projection screen inside the "Paravent" where video of past public services will be played.