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Item: Sous-Sols de Paris [Paris Underground]

Gordon Matta-Clark

1977-2005

Video, 00:25:20.
Materials: super 8mm film on video

Collection: M HKA / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK7767_M494_2).

In this film, Matta-Clark explores underground Paris. The artist shows us the complexity of the underground spaces in the Opera district with images of ruins, car parks, tunnels, ossuaries, cellars and tombs. Matta-Clark describes them as *‘forgotten spaces buried under the city, an historic reservation of living memories of past projects and fantasies.’*

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