There’s an immense installation by Corinne Vionnet on the wall of the French embassy. It’s hot out and the panels, three meters tall, are placed haphazardly against the wall. The text is lost between the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge, not far from Stonehenge and the Tower of Pisa. A young man parks his motorbike and, holding up his smartphone, politely asks permission to take a picture. He looks over the text before hopping back on his bike and disappearing into traffic. He had been struck by the photos, surprised perhaps by the unusual and pictorial appearance of the monuments, some of which he might have recognized—Angkor Wat, created by the artist specifically for the festival—but he didn’t know what it was about. He photographed the text, and learned that the images are made up of a hundred images found on the internet, the “ordinary” perspectives that tourists send to their friends and family.
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