10 mai - 22 juin 2014
🏡 Grand Palais, dans le cadre de la sixième édition de Monumenta, au sein de l’exposition l’Étrange Cité des artistes Ilya et Emilia Kabakov
🏡 Grand Palais, dans le cadre de la sixième édition de Monumenta, au sein de l’exposition l’Étrange Cité des artistes Ilya et Emilia Kabakov
Minimenta
“Art can change the way we think, dream, act, and reflect.
It can change the way we live.” – Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
This installation was created within the framework of a partnership between the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and the Grand Palais (RMN), both of which contributed to the project’s production.
The artistic proposal unfolded as a questioning of the Kabakovs’ Strange City, which depicts an ideal city encircled by imposing white walls. This feature is linked to a broader global tendency toward the collusion of utopia and isolationism, reminiscent of Thomas More’s character Utopus.
The installation exhibited at the Grand Palais sought to re-enact this paradoxical movement of the ideal topos by proposing a miniature garden of Eden: a lush green lawn with radiant flowers, whose access was obstructed by massive construction fences, echoing the still lifes of the urban environment.
Conception: Alix Sumont & Thomas Vauthier
Production: Camille Astié, Quentin Astié, Margaux Bigou, Tommy Bougé, Victor Calsou, Laure Cousin, Pauline Fremaux, Flore Gervais, Kiana Hubert-Low, Flora Laudrin, Pierre Marie Lazaroo, Tiffany Lemoine, Albane Monnier, Antoine Pintout, Hugo Servanin, Alix Sumont, Thomas Vauthier