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Mungo Thomson - Monument

Culture · Wednesday, November 11 · 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 artist inscribes in the long time of ephemeral images and objects doomed to abandon. Deploying video, sculpture and installation, Thomson explores popular cultures and shifts our gaze on the familiar, which he suddenly makes strange. Raised in the courtyard of Lafayette Anticipations, Snowman is a monumental tower inspired by expedition and cardboard postal tubes. Packaging materials destined to circulate and then disappear, it…