Mungo Thomson - Monument
When: 21.10.2026 12:00
Where: 48.856578, 2.351828
Organizer: Admin
Through two emblematic works, the Californian artist inscribes fleeting images and objects destined for abandonment into deep time. Deploying video, sculpture and installation, Thomson explores popular cultures and shifts our gaze onto the familiar, which he suddenly makes strange.
Erected in the courtyard of Lafayette Anticipations, Snowman is a monumental tower inspired by cardboard shipping and postal delivery tubes. Packaging materials destined to circulate and then disappear become here a sleek bronze sculpture.
The film Time Life Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived is the fifteenth installment of a series of stop‑motion animations, each composed of thousands of images taken from books. A succession of candles streams through it like flashes, drawn especially from religious texts, art history books, or decoration volumes.
With Snowman and Time Life Volume 15, Mungo Thomson overturns the very idea of a monument. Inspired by the massive circulation of parcels and images in the contemporary era, these monuments do not commemorate historical events, but the ordinary experience of a generation—the artist’s—shaped by printed media and the transition from the analog world to the digital.
Cover visual: Mungo Thomson, Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived, 2025. 4K video with sound, 1:54 minutes Sound: vinyl crackle ASMR. © Mungo Thomson. Courtesy the artist, galerie frank elbaz, and Karma.
Tags: video, installation, exhibition, sculpture
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/mungo-thomson-monument-116993
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