Chasing Napoleon at the Palais de Tokyo

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and at a moment when the economies all around the world are paying for the excesses of capitalism, Chasing Napoleon questions the gravity centre of our political lives and explores utopist landscapes of all kinds, from Hobbes’ state of nature to the influence of science fiction in Paul Laffoley’s work.

It also includes elements as different as Dieter Roth’s inventory of Reykjavik, Theodore Kaczynski’s anti-capitalist manifesto, Darth Vader and, of course…Napoleon Bonaparte, the ultimate political symbol.

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Chasing Napoleon at the Palais de Tokyo