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Mungo Thomson - Monument
Culture · Wednesday, November 4 · 11:00 · Paris
Lafayette Anticipations, 9, rue du Plâtre
Free
Lafayette Anticipations presents Monument, a solo exhibition dedicated to Mungo Thomson. Through two emblematic works, the California-based artist inscribes in the long time of ephemeral images and objects doomed to abandonment. Deploying video, sculpture and installation, Thomson explores popular cultures and shifts our gaze on the familiar, rendering it suddenly strange. Erected in the courtyard of Lafayette Anticipations, Snowman is a monumental tower inspired by expedition tubes and cardboard shipping tubes. Packing materials set to circulate then disappear, it…