“1ΔO”
CAPC musée d'art contemporain
A number of recent exhibitions have reflected on 1960s psychedelic art, but “1∆0: Explorations psychédéliques en France, 1968 – ∞” took a radically different approach. Curators Axelle Blanc, Tiphanie Blanc, and Yann Chateigné Tytelman mounted a conceptual, counterintuitive exploration of the French side of psychedelia by not dwelling on the full-bodied experience we would automatically expect. In the CAPC’s imposing, sparingly lit exhibition hall, the beholder was instead met by a few documentary slide projections, a memorabilia time line that demonstrated how psychedelia was also the pathetic