In 2013, Biennale de Montréal became an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to organising and promoting the biannual event, which was renamed BNLMTL. As part of this reorganisation, Biennale de Montréal entered into a key partnership with the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, becoming its main partner and venue.

The visual identity for Le Grand Balcon was developed in collaboration with the Biennale's curatorial team and the communications staff at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the organisation’s main partner and venue. In the words of its curator, Philippe Pirotte, “Le Grand Balcon was freely inspired by Jean Genet’s play Le Balcon, which made this platform a space for contestation between revolution and counter-revolution, reality and illusion”.

The challenge was to create a strong visual identity capable of carrying the event by evoking its main themes: pleasure, sensuality and hedonism, but also reality, illusion and ambiguity. These themes took shape in fluid and vaporous graphic representations, appearing in irregular and unusual ways on the various communication pieces of the event.