ISBN: 9782877212328

Paperback: 64 pages
Publisher: Jeu de Paume, 2017
Language: English, French
Product Dimensions: 15 x 0.5 x 21 cm

Filmed inside a series of empty museum galleries across Paris, Ali Cherri’s Somniculus articulates the tension between the lives of dead objects and the living world that surrounds them—thus highlighting their ideological value. This publication accompanies and complete the Lebanese artist’s video project.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, from February 2 to April 30, 2017, and at Jeu de Paume, Paris, from February 14, to May 28, 2017.