‘Tremendous’; ‘Fascinating’, ‘Horrific’, these are the adjectives that were used by medias to describe the DAU opening in Paris. The reaction toward the project was numerous because of the massiveness of this immersive experience. How can an artist, as brilliant as he can be, designed this all reconstruction? What is the meaning of reconstructing a Soviet town almost 40 years after the fall of the Berlin wall?

 

The DAU project in construction

 

 The exhibition as an ethnography

 

 

Phenomenology of the exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

This exhibition is totally a ‘space of total simulation’ an immersive experience in a time capsule.

 

 

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