IMAGINED DREAMWORLDS AND CITYSCAPES
Nov 13, 2019
4 minutes
WORDS JOSEPHINE V. ROQUE
PHOTOS MARC DOMAGE AND AURÉLIEN MOLE
rance’s largest museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art held an exhibition called last summer featuring 50 artists working from the creative landscapes of five megacities: Dhaka, Lagos, Manila, Mexico, and Tehran. Finished in 1937, Palais de Tokyo calls itself an anti-museum that seeks to challenge concepts of what art can be in Paris, a city known for its canonical works of fine art. For , Palais de Tokyo was transformed from a sprawling space of exposed beams and raw aged material into an unpredictable, eclectic, dizzying labyrinth mapped by the scenographer,
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