I realized I have a wealth of grifted photographs that I can, too, add to this particular arm of Veneer Magazine Blog (VMB) projects. The illicitness of this photograph isn't as extreme, however, since as far as I know photography is allowed at the Palais de Tokyo, and there's not much I could do -- as a human being -- to damage this Michel Blazy installation, Post Patman, since it's quite literally a room full of rotting bullshit.
The Palais de Tokyo changes its curatorial themes quite often, in order to make room for the shifting pace of their installations, I imagine. Right now it's "Nouvelles du Monde Renverse" (News from the Upside-Down World), so the emphasis is on inversion, and the worldly, in a general sense.
Post Patman is an extension of Blazy's earlier project for the Palais' 5,000,000,000 Years show, which was an atomic bomb made out of 91 Kilos of soy noodles. Where the earlier Patman certainly seemed ephemeral, this installation is built to decay. There are animals made of chocolate, flowers wrought out of strips of bacon, rotting carrots, a fishtank of festering Kombucha, towers of moldy orange peels. The walls have been painted with a combination of mashed potatoes and beets, protected at varying degrees with aluminum plates: the result is a mosaic pattern of orange-tinted rot that, if you somehow can ignore the smell, is actually quite beautiful.
The idea is that Blazy's work is perpetually unfinished, waiting for a collaboration with time to fully run its course.