Mungo Thomson - Monument

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 durée of ephemeral images and objects destined for abandonment. Deploying video, sculpture and installation, Thomson explores popular cultures and shifts our gaze on the familiar, making it suddenly strange. Erected in the courtyard of Lafayette Anticipations, Snowman is a monumental tower inspired by expedition and cardboard postal tubes. Packaging materials meant to circulate and then disappear, it…