Do you have to travel to be happy?
questions the new exhibition of the EDF Group Foundation, playing backwards with the famous verse of Joachim du Bellay: “Happy who, like Ulysses, has had a beautiful trip.”
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This unprecedented exhibition on the theme of travel was born from a collective curatorship which brought together Alexia Fabre, former director of Mac Val and now head of Fine Arts, sociologist Rodolphe Christin and Nathalie Bazoche of the EDF Foundation: 32 contemporary, French and international artists (Andy Goldsworthy, Pierre Huyghe, Ange Leccia, Martin Parr, Nathalie Talec…), through some fifty works – installations, paintings, videos, photographs… – shake up our conception of travel, often associated to our way of life and our well-being.
Here, it is not only a vector of pleasure, dreams, dialogue and knowledge, but raises many questions: what is its ecological footprint?
How tourism transforms
elsewhere in the consumer space?
An exhibition in the form of food for thought.
Should we travel to be happy?,
until January 29, 2023, at the EDF Group Foundation, in Paris.
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