A participatory art project.

 

Artworks are placed in the city or passed from hand to hand. Those who encounter them can keep them, pass them on and share what they feel.

 

By Quentin Chamard-Bois

 

 

Find your chapter

 

Found or received an artwork? Choose the name written on it.

 

THE 333 — Paris, 2023. Artworks entrusted to the city.

THE 33 — New York, 2025. The encounter with an artwork.

THE 22 — From hand to hand. Create a diptych and pass it on.

 

 

The project

 

The 333 Project began with a simple gesture: letting an artwork go without choosing who would receive it. Initiated by Quentin Chamard-Bois in Paris in 2023, it continued in New York with THE 33, then from hand to hand with THE 22.

 

These chapters explore the value we give an image and what makes us want to keep it. In the street, someone may stop, hesitate, take the work or walk on. From an envelope, they choose two images, bring them together and pass the others on.

 

A QR code travels with each work. It leads to the relevant chapter and extends the encounter through an exchange with the artist or other participants.

 

 

Take part

 

Each chapter offers a different way to participate.

 

For THE 333 and THE 33, find your artwork and share your response on the chapter’s page. For THE 22, create and keep your diptych, then pass the envelope with the remaining works to someone of your choice.

 

A few words are enough: a feeling, a memory, a question. Whatever comes to you as you look at the image.