January222010
Monumenta 2010
Yesterday I went to say the latest installation in the Grand Palais.  Personnes, by Christian Boltanski; in essence a study in negative space.  Thousands of garments (strewn into regular squares on the floor and in a large pyramid) testify to their absent owners.  The cavernous hall dwarfs these, but numerous recordings of heartbeats complete the piece by filling the space.  Worth a visit, good for some inspired wool-gathering, but not especially challenging.

Monumenta 2010

Yesterday I went to say the latest installation in the Grand Palais.  Personnes, by Christian Boltanski; in essence a study in negative space.  Thousands of garments (strewn into regular squares on the floor and in a large pyramid) testify to their absent owners.  The cavernous hall dwarfs these, but numerous recordings of heartbeats complete the piece by filling the space.  Worth a visit, good for some inspired wool-gathering, but not especially challenging.

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