Silence

About this book

This title gathers a corpus of contemporary works by 25 artists, ranging from Arman's 'Accumulations' to Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs, and together they present a world that is both strange and familiar, what curator Simone Menegoi refers to as "the story of a planet that has become uninhabitable for reasons unknown..." Part scientific experiment, part fictional narrative, the effect of these traces that our civilisation leaves behind is one of a reversal of history, as if the works between the pages, artifacts of our contemporary era, are being observed through the eyes of an archaeologist or anthropologist from the future.0Exhibition: Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Paloma, Monaco (2.2.-3.4.2012). 0.

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About the author

Marc Augé

2 Sept 1935

Marc Augé (born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist. **Source**: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Aug%C3%A9" target="blanck">Wikipedia</a>