Making Worlds Exist

2 ASIA NOW is pleased to invite Kathy Alliou, director of the department of Artworks at Les Beaux-Arts de Paris, to curate the exhibition Making Worlds Exist.

Making Worlds Exist, builds on the multitude of dimensions unfolded by anthropologist Anna L. Tsing’s, in her book, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins.

In her account it is in devastated areas that the Matsutake mushroom grows, regenerates the damaged ecosystem and induces a picking economy that interweaves seemingly distant value systems. Almost extinct from Japan, but present in the forests of Oregon, United States, this fungus generates a set of unexpected and productive alliances which only exist if one knows how to be attentive, in particular to the places given as damaged.

Beyond the dualisms evoked by the notions of native land or adopted land, inherited or constructed identities, chosen or forced displacements, origin and diaspora, it is the richness of family, individual and artistic characteristics that characterize the practice of the artists in the exhibition and their ability to combine the richness of their heritage.

In the Making Worlds Exist exhibition, visitors are invited to focus their attention on the walls and as much as on the floor. The works are displayed on very low podiums which are “patches” where worlds are made before our eyes, on the singular condition of knowing how to look.

The Exhibition Making Worlds Exist is supported by Sisley

Scenographic support : Christine Beinemeier

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