A l’horizon de Shangri-La

A little more Shangri-La anyone? Extend your stay in the “Country of the sacred and of peace”, on the heights of Everest, with the show’s little red book. The artists guide us along paths leading to the ideal city and invite us to see whether Utopia is still alive and well there, and peace flourishing.

However, watch out for clichés: the artists rethink and take over this Asian, historical and philosophical heritage, up to and including the recent utopian and revolutionary offshoots, confronting us along the way with the ideological and exotic dimension of our view, thie eternal western model through which we seek to interpret the world.

Artists: Kimsooja, Qin Ga, Su-Mei Tse, Xu Zhen, Qiu Zhiije, Hamish Fulton, Marco Godinho, Laurent Tixador & Abraham Poinceval