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Adda/Rendez-vous E X H I B I T I O N 13 TH APRIL - 26 TH AUGUST 2018 PRESS 1 KIT

MONNAIE DE PARIS Communication Manager Ingrid Schosseler ingrid.schosseler@monnaiedeparis.fr Press Relations Jessica Thiaudière tel : +33 (0)1 40 46 58 50 jessica.thiaudiere@monnaiedeparis.fr CLAUDINE COLIN COMMUNICATION Virginie Thomas tel : + 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01 virginie@claudinecolin.com PRACTICAL INFORMATION Opening hours Tuesday to Sunday - 11am to 7pm Wednesday until 9pm 11, Quai de Conti 75006 Paris Shop Tuesday to Sunday 10:30am 7:30pm 2, rue Guénégaud 75006 Paris FOLLOW US monnaiedeparis.fr facebook.com/monnaiedeparis twitter.com/monnaiedeparis youtube.com/monnaiedeparis instagram.com/monnaiedeparis Faith Matters, 2007-2008-Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich 2

A TECTONIC ENCOUNTER What is it that makes an artist s work touch you? As is often the case, answering this question means plumbing your personal depths in quest of the genealogy of an emotional response and the tectonics of an aesthetic impact. Some situations require going deeper than others. For the Monnaie de Paris the Paris Mint the plunge into the past is a matter of 1,150 years. We ve been working with metal for eleven centuries now. Every day our artists, craftsmen and workers tackle this raw material: selecting, rolling, cutting, striking, patinating, chiselling in other words, dominating and mastering it. Their ceaseless focus in on the reaction of gold, silver and bronze, so that during the crucial few seconds when a few centimetres of metal are subjected to several tonnes of pressure, the engraving «comes up» as close to perfection as possible; thus is the daily round in our workshops the confrontation between the near-terrifying force of the presses, precious metals and the remarkable result sublimated into the quality of well-struck items. As it is handed on this savoir-faire evolves and is honed and adapted, enabling us to produce unique pieces which, in a world of digitisation and the ever more rapid disappearance of material traces, represent authenticity, duration eternity almost and an essential benchmark, a value unlike any other. This is what informs their status as art: imbued with meaning, they transcend the inertia of the substances they are made from. The encounter between our world of work with precious metals and Subodh Gupta s world was a unique opportunity, marked by an interaction that was as unforced as the parallels were unfeigned: it sufficed to see the way he took to our workshops, how quickly he found himself at home with our engravers; and to witness the dialogue between creators, from the initial idea to its practicalities and its transposition into metals precious or commonplace gold or stainless steel. Gupta himself works directly with metal and its significance in today s India: metal that gleams without being precious, but whose transformation into art raises the issue of where beauty lies in our societies. This is an issue we share; one we are faced with every day, sometimes unknowingly. Gupta s work faces it too, and in doing so helps us grow and progress. Words, though, are perhaps pointless here. Instead, let s hand over to the raw yet subtle power of metal; let s move with the flow of the innate humanity it reveals. Aurélien Rousseau CEO La Monnaie de Paris 3

MONNAIE DE PARIS REVEALS ITS TREASURES After six years of renovation work, the Monnaie de Paris transformation of its Parisian site has drawn to a close and gives birth to 11 Conti - Monnaie de Paris, Having been entirely renovated. Monnaie de Paris reveals its ambitious project and invites its visitors to discover a museum dedicated to metalwork, craftsmanship and an exceptional heritage collection. Since 1775, the Parisian site of the Monnaie de Paris is located at 11 quai de Conti in the heart of the 6th arrondissement. Taking the name of its historic location, the Monnaie de Paris opens 11 Conti - Monnaie de Paris. The site thus becomes a new animated public space opened to the city and offering new cultural amenities. A new tour: the Museum of 11 Conti allows its visitors to discover the workshops where nearly 150 artisans work, as well as the heritage collections which are the hidden treasures of the Monnaie de Paris. This permanent display echoes Modern and Contemporary Art temporary exhibitions, being held several times a year. Under the Monnaie de Paris banner, a new shop for metalwork highlights the excellence of its craftsmanship in the productions of art objects. Brands representing the excellence of French knowhow, its art of living and culture, are set up right in the premises. 11 Conti - Monnaie de Paris also offers an exceptional gastronomic experience hosting since 2015 with Guy Savoy s three-stars restaurant, which The List elected «Best Table in the World» in 2017 and 2018. This reward remind the history that binds the Monnaie de Paris to the French tradition. A new café, Frappé par Bloom, is also open in the Méridienne courtyard. 11 Conti - Monnaie de Paris is accessible, free of charge, through 2 alleys, thus giving the public an opportunity to discover a rare architectural masterpiece in the heart of Paris. Winding through the site, the new itinerary halts in the inner courtyards that form a series of urban plaza. 11 Conti - Monnaie de Paris thus becomes a natural passage to cross from one bank of the Seine to the other. 4

SUBODH GUPTA Adda / Rendez-vous 13 TH APRIL - 26 TH AUGUST 2018 Two Cows, 2003-2008 - Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich Monnaie de Paris presents «Adda / Rendez-vous», the first retrospective exhibition in France of internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, Subodh Gupta. Gupta (b. 1964) lives and works in Delhi and had trained as a painter before going on to work with a variety of media including painting, performance, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Subodh Gupta sees the exhibition as a place for meetings, rendezvous that would trigger discussions, exchanges and debates just like the indhi concept «Adda». Showcasing the diversity of Subodh Gupta s practice, the exhibition features iconic sculptures using stainless steels pots and pans, such as Very Hungry God (2006), for which Gupta is best known and cast found objects, such as Two Cows (2003), alongside very new works, like Unknown Treasure (2017) and the video titled Seven Billion Light Years (2016). While varied in material, the body of work is defined by the artist s continuous exploration of ritual and spirituality in everyday life. As the kitchen is the centre of every Indian household, Gupta s practice too is grounded in the quotidian pantry and it is from here that he reflects on not only personal and communal practices, but also on how often intimate and seemingly insignificant objects and experiences can offer a glimpse into the cosmos at large. main stairway and continues in the inner courtyard of the Monnaie de Paris with monumental sculptures conceived especially for this retrospective. The range of works in the exhibition give insight into the considered use of scale, material, and the readymade in Gupta s oeuvre. Selected pieces will be on display in conversation with the Monnaie s permanent collection of metal artifacts to encourage reflection on the medium of metal both in terms of its symbolic value as well as the technical and artistic skill required to manipulate and bring meaning to it. The exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual publication (in French and English) covering the exhibited works, an introduction, a series of essays and a unique, commented chronology of Subodh Gupta s career. It will be published by Skira Editions. This exhibition is curated by Camille Morineau, Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Monnaie de Paris and Mathilde de Croix, exhibition curator at the Monnaie de Paris, The exhibition takes place in the historic salons of 11 Conti along the banks of the Seine, extends up the

BIOGRAPHY Subodh Gupta was born in 1964 in Khagaul, Bihar, India. He studied at the College of Art, Patna before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. The artist oscillates between diverse media, collating disjointed objects and experiences into complete images, cast in metal, etched on a canvas, or performed through the body. The inherently transient nature of memory builds in magnificently with the artistic urge to preserve for posterity the vestiges of what is seen, heard, felt, thought or believed. Gupta is best known for working with everyday objects that are ubiquitous throughout India, such as mass-produced stainless steel utensils, bicycles, and milk pails. From these ordinary items the artist produces works that reflect on universal issues including migration, globalisation, and the cosmos. Subodh Gupta s work exemplifies the iconography of a banal, precarious, edgy and bustling everyday life, often monumental in magnitude, blown out of proportions, peeled out of their ordinary skins by their sheer mass and volume. His recent projects include group and solo exhibitions at Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, USA (2017), Mead Gallery, Warwick, UK (2017), Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, USA (2016), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (2016), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (2015), and The Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2014). Subodh Gupta - Courtesy Hauser & Wirth - Photo : Dia Bhupal THE EXHIBITION IN NUMBERS 1ST SOLO EXHIBITION IN FRANCE 30 ART WORKS 2 NEW PRODUCTIONS 1 RESIDENCE IN LA MONNAIE DE PARIS WORKSHOPS 2 CREATIONS OF MEDAL 6

PLAN OF THE EXHIBITION Jutha, 2005 - Private collection - Courtesy the artist - Photo : Marc Domage 1 THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORDINARY SECTIONS 1 the language of the ordinary 2 insatiable god 3 THERE IS ALWAYS CINEMA 4 the gods are in the kitchen 5 travel and exile 6 Celestial bodies This first section features works where Subodh Gupta plays with everyday objects, both iconic and banal. In Unknown Treasure (2017) found objects are pouring out from a bronze pot as if it were a horn of plenty. The pot itself is an enlargement of a handi, a traditional Indian kitchen utensil. The artist confounds our eye by reproducing bronze trompe-l oeil elements that have marked his daily life, such as mangoes that are plentiful in the summers in India, or the dough used to prepare traditional bread. Oil on Canvas (2010) uses the same illusionist logic, but not without irony, as it alludes to the archetypes of Minimalism. With Jutha (2005), the artist shows used and stained dishes lying in sinks with a faint sound of dishes being washed playing in the background, evoking the complexities surrounding cleanliness and purity in eating and cooking. I Go Home Every Single Day(2004-2014) traces the artist s journey from his studio in Delhi to Khagaul, the village where he was born, in Bihar. He captures scenes from the everyday while the images accelerate or slow down to the tempo of the train. 7

There Is Always Cinema (I), 2008 Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana Photo : Ela Bialkowska 2 INSATIABLE GOD 3 THERE IS ALWAYS CINEMA With Very Hungry God (2006) the evocation of an increasingly universal vanitas, voracious and insatiable Gupta captures the haunting aspects of alluring excess accompanied by crippling starvation that is often a direct result of capitalist modes of production. The work takes the form of a skull that has been created with hundreds of gleaming stainless steel utensils, the kind used in the majority of lower and middle class families kitchens in India. The artist showed this work for the first time during the 2006 edition of Nuit Blanche, in the church of Saint-Bernard, famous for the struggles that had taken place ten years earlier when it was occupied by illegal immigrants. The church had become a site of resistance and regular demonstrations against the expulsions ordered by the government. Objects can be released from their functions and put into a standstill by their transposition in bronze or brass. They hold stories, as the title of the piece, There Is Always Cinema (2008), reminds us. The works featured in this section were originally created for a show in 2008 at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano. The gallery is located in an old cinema that was built after the Second World War. There, the artist had discovered a room filled with defunct equipment, projectors, film reels, trolleys, etc, vestiges of the building s initial function. He then manufactured complete metal replicas of these various objects and displayed them side by side with the original objects, creating what Gupta refers to as emotionally charged pairs. They create a commemorative space, which no doubt refers as much to the old Italian cinema as to the movie theatres of his childhood in India. As is often the case in Gupta s work, several layers of narration coexist and unfold, stemming from the designation of objects as vehicles for identity and memory. 8

Jal Mein Kumbh, Kumbh Mein Jal Hai [The Pot is in the Water, and the Water is in the Pot], 2012 - Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth - Photo : Genevieve Hanson 4 THE GODS ARE IN THE KITCHEN 5 TRAVEL AND EXILE Food is at the heart of Subodh Gupta s work: he assembles and juxtaposes cooking utensils; he films food preparation; he curates performances around eating and ingestion; and the subject of his painting is a plate with leftover remnants of food. The artist began using stainless steel dishes in 1996 and has continued to experiment with it since. Despite the diversity of the Indian population, these utensils can be seen a common denominator in society and Gupta is particularly interested in shining ubiquity of this tableware that is accompanied by the equally widespread struggle for parts of the population to fill these containers with food and water. The artist weaves connections between container and content in various works. In Faith Matters (2007 2008), traditional lunch boxes, tiffin dabbas, take up economic and political meaning as they loop and zig-zag around on a mechanical circuit, evoking global trade routes and trends in food trade and production. If, for Subodh Gupta, cooking utensils deformed by repeated heat are comparable to stars in the recent paintings In This Vessel Lie The Seven Seas; In It, Too, The Nine Hundred Thousand Stars(I), (2016), it is also because, for him, food is an allegory of the universe. Whereas Two Cows (2003 2008), is inspired by the daily distribution of milk and Doot (2003) is an iconic Indian Ambassador car cast in aluminium. transportation is not simply a daily activity for Gupta. Representations of travel and transport for the artist are often closely tied to notions of migration and exodus. In the split-screen video All Things Are Inside (2007), Gupta captures the meagre personal belongings owned by Indian migrant labourers working in the Middle East. The video shows these objects being surveyed and packed by their owners into rough bundles tied up in rope, as they prepare to return home to their families. On the other screen we see a montage of scenes from famous Bollywood movies featuring a wide variety of bags. As this footage plays side by side, the bag acquires metonymic value, symbolising the entire life of its owner. The artist s works using boats take this symbolism further. In Jal Mein Kumbh, Kumbh Mein Jal Hai (The Water Is In The Pot, The Pot Is In The Water) (2012), Gupta alludes to the migration of groups of people as well as migration in the collective unconscious. The title of the work is taken from the 15th century Indian Sufi poet Kabir: «Water is in the pot and the pot is in the ocean, Break the pot and the waters merge, Rarely do we ponder on this unification» 9

Seven Billion Light Years, 2015-2016 - Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and GAL- LERIA CONTINUA 6 CELESTIAL BODIES Expanding from his representations of the connection between food and spirituality, Subodh Gupta s recent works have turned to food as an allegory for the universe and cosmos at large, whereby the infinitely large is captured by the infinitely small with uncanny accuracy. In Seven Billion Light Years (2015 2016), a round of dough is captured flying through the air in the process of making bread, quite literally transforming it into an Unidentified Flying Object or a celestial body of some kind. Anahad (Unstruck) (2016) uses simple metal panels to give form to the concept of anahad naad, or the reverberating sound of the cosmos that has neither a beginning nor an end and transcends space and time. While looking at these mirrored panels, a sudden intense vibration begins, causing the viewers to be overwhelmed by sound and faced with such an extreme distortion of their reflection that the boundaries between oneself and one s surroundings dissolve and become one. With In This Vessel Lies The Philosopher s Stone (2017), Subodh Gupta reactivates or updates the myth of the philosopher s stone that can change all material into gold. People Tree(2018) evokes a more tragic transformation: the Indian national tree the banyan tree is won over by steel, its leaves having become cooking utensils. The living becomes mineral and the organic is invaded by manufactured objects. Anahad [Unstruck], 2016 - Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth - Photo : Ken Adlard 10

ARTWORKS In This Vessel Lies The Philosopher s Stone, 2017 - Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana - Photo : Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio The langage of the ordinary Unknown Treasure, 2017 Jutha, 2005 Atta [Dough], 2010 Wash Before Eating, 2018 A Glass Of Water, 2011-2018 Oil On Canvas, 2010 Only One Gold, 2017 I Go Home Every Single Day, 2004-2014 Adda, 2018 insatiable God Very Hungry God, 2006 There is always cinema There Is Always Cinema (I), 2008 There Is Always Cinema (III), 2008 The gods are in the kitchen In This Vessel Lie The Seven Seas ; In It, Too, The Nine Hundred Thousand Stars (I), 2016 Sister, 2005 Faith Matters, 2007-2008 Untitled, 2016 Travel and exile Jal Mein Kumbh, Kumbh Mein Jal Hai [The Water Is In The Pot, The Pot Is In The Water], 2012 Two Cows, 2003-2008 All Things Are Inside, 2007 Vehicle For Seven Seas, 2004 Doot, 2003 In This Vessel Lie The Seven Seas; In It, Too, The Nine Hundred Thousand Stars (I), 2016 - Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : the artist Celestial bodies Pure, 1999 Anahad [Unstruck], 2016 Door, 2007 In This Vessel Lies The Philosopher s Stone, 2017 Spirit Eaters, 2012 Seven Billion Light Years, 2015-2016 People Tree, 2018 At the 11 conti museum 1 K.G. War, 2007 A Penny For Belief, 2008 Apples Of The Earth, 2018 11

AT THE 11 CONTI MUSEUM 1 K.G. War, 2007 Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Exhibition «A dream of elsewhere...» As an extension of the exhibition shown in the Palais s historic salons, three works are installed in the 11 Conti museum, 1 K.G.War, A Penny For Belief and Apples Of The Earth. These pieces interact with the historical collections of Monnaie de Paris, such as the standard kilo and the treasures that are preserved there. A Penny For Belief, 2008 - Pinault Collection Courtesy the artist To echo Subodh Gupta s monograph, the 11 Conti Museum offers a thematic exhibition focusing on India and medals. In total, nearly 45 objects, including medals, art castings and the kilo Taj Mahal coin are gathered and exhibited at Monnaie de Paris. The exhibition by Subodh Gupta and «A dream of elsewhere...» highlight the strong link that unites the artist and la Monnaie de Paris around metalwork. These two exhibitions are brought together to establish a dialogue between our know-how and the monumental pieces of the Indian artist. As early as the 1950s, acting upon its aspiration to nationally and internationally promote medal art, la Monnaie de Paris has favored the exploration of new thematics, in which India plays a large part. A selection of our most beautiful creations, drawn from our general catalog and from the collection of the French Medal Club, aims to illustrate the charismatic personalities who have marked and transformed such a large country on the political and social, literary and philosophical or cultural and artistic levels. Other medals highlight the role of scientists and explorers who, through their scientific achievements, have made India known to the general public. Architecture, spirituality and the wildlife are all themes that the medalists, with diverse artistic approaches and varied imaginations, have been seizing to pass on «a dream of elsewhere» to us...

Doot, 2003 - Courtesy the artist and Galerie Enrico Navarra PRATICAL INFORMATION TICKETS MONNAIE DE PARIS 11, QUAI DE CONTI 75006 PARIS OPENING HOURS TUESDAY TO SUNDAY 11AM TO 7PM WEDNESDAY UNTIL 9PM Ticket «Subodh Gupta at 11 CONTI» GROUPS Reception of groups from 9 am to 11 am: reservations on the website. Tickets/Online Reservations billetterie.monnaiedeparis.fr POP-UP BOOKSHOP 11, Quai de Conti - 75006 Paris Every day, 11AM to 7PM Wednesday until 9PM MONNAIE DE PARIS SHOP 2 bis, rue Guénégaud - 75006 Paris Every day, 11AM to 7PM Wednesday until 9PM FOLLOW US www.monnaiedeparis.fr facebook.com/monnaiedeparis twitter.com/monnaiedeparis youtube.com/monnaiedeparis instagram.com/monnaiedeparis Tickets are valid for a single entry in the EXHIBITION and the MUSEUM (in which the Subodh Gupta exhibition continues) on the specific date and time chosen. Prices: from 12 at the ticket office for the reduced fare, 14 for full price and reduced tickets on the website. instagram.com/monnaiedeparis 13

AROUND THE EXHIBITION ACTIVITY GUIDE PARIS-MÔMES In order to escort children through the exhibition, we designed a guide with Paris Mômes. Games and observations are combined to learn contemporary art vocabulary while having fun. Free booklet available at the ticket booth and on dowloadable on our website. LECTURES AND VISITS TUESDAY 19 TH JUNE AT 7PM Talk with Subodh Gupta - in english Tickets : 5 / person THURSDAY 12 TH APRIL. Visit (30mn) «A dream of elsewhere The numismatics and India» Ticket : 14 /person (including the entrance to the museum) FAMILY ACTIVITY Workshop around the work of Subodh Gupta. 16 /visitor - including acess to the 11 Conti Museum) AND ALSO... Take a tour with our exhibition guides. Guided exhibition tours are at a fixed time every week: - Guided tours: general public (12 years and up), 90 minutes, Thursdays at 7PM, Saturdays and Sundays at 11AM - Guided tours for families: (5 years and up), 60 minutes, Wednesdays at 15.00, Saturdays and Sundays at 3PM For groups: guided tours or visits, on reservation. A special time slot is reserved for groups (Tuesday through Sunday, 9AM to 11AM) to allow them to visit the exhibition without disruption from the general public. Whether your group wishes to visit the exhibition on its own or with a guide, please contact us to arrange your visit: 01 40 46 57 57 or reservations-groupes@ monnaiedeparis.fr or reserve your time slot online: ticketting-groupes. monnaiedeparis.fr

CATALOG SUBODH GUPTA Edited by Camille Morineau (Director of exhibitions and collections of La Monnaie de Paris) and Mathilde de Croix, curators of the exhibition and alongside the reproduction of exhibited works, this bilingual publication, in French and English, includes a previously unpublished commented chronology on the artist s career as well as essays by Germano Celant, Nicolas Bourriaud, Bhrigupati Singh. AUTHORS Germano Celant is an Art historian, a Contemporary Art critic and curator, he s also the artistic director of the Prada Foundation in Milan. He is one of the most reknown expert on Contemporary Art and the inventor of the Arte Povera concept. «Since the 1990s Subodh Gupta has been working out of what is called his cultural identity, which is to say the set of forms, signs and gestures that have crystallised in his natal environment. No more, no less. But he is also acted on by other forces that have made their appearance in the course of time, among them migration, junk, ritual and the invisible. His visual writing affirms a kind of solidarity not only with his environment, but with his epoch as well. The term solidarity could be defined here as the act by which an artist declares, consciously or otherwise, what he identifies with as a contemporary and what is the objective of his project. Gupta himself effects a daring synthesis of contemporary Western art and traditional practices in works whose forms reference India s popular, visual, spiritual culture.» Nicolas Bourriaud Nicolas Bourriaud is an Art historian and critic specialized in Contemporary Art. He also runs La Panacée, Center of Contemporary Art in Montpellier (France). Bhrigupati Singh is an anthropologist, writer and professor of Anthropology at Brown University (USA). Publisher: Skira Format: Paperback, 19 x 26 cm Number of pages: 192 Illustrations: 100, color Release date: April / May 2018 Language: French / English ISBN: 978-2-37074-083-0 Retail price: 25 15

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SECTION I : THE LANGAGE OF THE ORDINARY Jutha, 2005 Stainless steel, brass, aluminium, plastic, sound Variable dimension, each sink : 95 x 100 x 46 cm Private Collection Courtesy the artist Photo : Marc Domage Unknown Treasure, 2017 Brass and mixed media 427 x 122 x 135 cm Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana Photo : Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio Only One Gold, 2017 Glass, wood, bronze 33.5 x 36 x 27.7 cm Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana Photo : Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio Atta [Dough], 2010 Painted bronze, flour, wooden table 8,5 x 18 x 59,5 cm Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : José Luis Gutiérrez Oil On Canvas, 2010 Cast bronze and oil paint 2 parts each, 65 x 65 x 2,5 cm Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich 17

SECTION 2 : INSATIABLE GOD Very Hungry God, 2006 Stainless steel, stainless steel utensils 390 x 320 x 400 cm Pinault Collection Courtesy the artist SECTION 3 : THERE IS ALWAYS CINEMA There Is Always Cinema (I), 2008 Nickel, brass, found objects Variable dimensions Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana Photo : Ela Bialkowska 18

SECTION 4 : THE GODS ARE IN THE KITCHEN Faith Matters, 2007-2008 Sushi belt, motor, stainless steel, aluminium, and brass utensils 161 x 264,4 x 460 cm Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich In This Vessel Lie The Seven Seas; In It, Too, The Nine Hundred Thousand Stars (I), 2016 Oil paint and digital print on aluminium, LED lights 365,7 x 243,8 x 5 cm Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : the artist 19

SECTION 5 : TRAVEL AND EXILE Doot, 2003 Aluminium 170 x 163 x 420 cm Courtesy the artist and Galerie Enrico Navarra Jal Mein Kumbh, Kumbh Mein Jal Hai [The Pot is in the Water, and the Water is in the Pot], 2012 Found wooden boat, brass, rope 508 x 152,4 x 167,6 cm Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : Genevieve Hanson Two Cows, 2003-2008 Bronze, bronze plated chrome 98 x 252 x 118 cm Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich 20

SECTION 6 : CELESTIAL BODIES Pure, 1999 Video, sound, loop 9 16 Courtesy the artist Door, 2007 Brass 206 x 89 x 12.5 cm Courtesy the artist Photo : Amil Rane & Rohan Mukherjee Spirit Eaters, 2012 Video, sound 2 53 Courtesy the artist Anahad [Unstruck], 2016 Stainless steel, transducer, amplifier 250 x 125 x 15 cm Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo : Ken Adlard 21

11 QUAI DE CONTI - 75270 PARIS CEDEX 06 TÉLÉPHONE : 01 40 46 56 66 WWW.MONNAIEDEPARIS.FR Couverture : Very Hungry God, 2006 - Pinault Collection - Courtesy the artist Society Un vent nouveau sur l info 22