How do you choose art, and where do you usually find it?

We make purchases based purely on emotion and don’t think about them as investments. The piece in our living room by Loris Gréaud, for example, evokes a lot of emotion for me. He created it by asking a young actress to cry over a metal plaque covered with some chemical. It looks like a cosmic universe.

Most of our works come from galleries, through the artists directly or from Art Basel in Miami and FIAC (International Contemporary Art Fair) in Paris, but we’ve also bought art on the street that costs less than $20. We found these fantastic photos in SoHo, for example, of Barbie dolls smoking, which were around $10 and a total contradiction to what society imagines Barbie to be. We hung them in a bedroom of our family estate in Normandy, and it’s now called the Barbie Room.

You’re entertained by your art; do you think art can be entertaining in the same way as a play or movie?

Definitely more so today than in the past, and I believe the shift has to do with social media making art a part of pop culture in a way that it wasn’t before. People all over the world, regardless of their social class, like to go to museums. Look at the success of exhibitions in cities like New York and Paris, where people queue up to get in.