The filmmaker has embarked on an extraordinary partnership with the Galeries Lafayette store in Paris, MAD correspondent Mark Tungate reports.

With David Lynch’s films becoming increasingly non-narrative – and, quite frankly, baffling – it’s no surprise that he has extended his reach to contemporary art. And in true Lynch style, he’s doing it in disruptive ways. This week Lynch was in Paris to unveil his “street museum”: a series of art installations in the windows of the Galeries Lafayette department store. The exhibition, on show until October 3, is called “Machines, Abstraction and Women”.

Although artists have created window displays for stores before, it’s hard to recall a partnership as pure as this one. There’s not an item of clothing in sight. Instead, the viewer is plunged into Lynch’s psyche via a series of giant abstract sculptures. He apparently spent months creating them in an atelier in Montparnasse. A more traditional gallery inside the store is showing the filmmaker’s paintings, sketches and other works.

With retailers under fire in an era of anti-consumption, Galeries Lafayette is sensibly repositioning itself not just as a store, but also as a hub of communication and culture.

Until October 3, Galeries Lafayette, 40 boulevard Haussmann, 75009, Paris

Open Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 8pm (9pm on Thursday)

Metro: Havre Caumartin

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