Expo '70

"Alex Besikian was not born at the time of the Osaka World Expo in the 1970s. Despite everything, he summons this memory in fragments, reconstructing it like a puzzle by cutting out period magazines and commemorative works. , by redrawing bits of photos, slogans, emblematic figures of the exhibition. What exhibition is it then? What is Alex Besikian looking for through these heroic ruins blackened with graphite, if not a park of 'attraction broken, an era of progress and spectacle reduced to a few splendid dross?"- Editions Matière