1977. Theodore Kaczynski - who doesn't yet answer to the name "Unabomber" - lives alone in a small cabin in Montana in anticipation of the "collapse of the technological system."
Paul Laffoley finishes The Renovatio Mundi in the confines of a fifteen square meter atelier, and Dieter Roth works on a long-term project: a photographic inventory of all the streets and houses in Reykjavik (33,000 slides).
That same year, the Community Reinvestment Act is passed, an attempt to regulate subprime lending.

A wavering of interpretations, an inversion of values, and a paradox of situations... "Chasing Napoleon" recognizes how a rise and fall can spread to reality itself. Marc-Olivier Wahler brings together eighteen artists whose works also read as instruction manuals on how to withdraw into seclusion and take refuge in the limits of the visible.

Artists: Dave Allen, Micol Assaël, Christoph Büchel, Dora Winter, Gardar Eide Einarsson, David Fincher, Tom Friedman, Ryan Gander, Robert Gober, Robert Kuśmirowski, Paul Laffoley, Tony Matelli, Ola Pehrson, Charlotte Posenenske, Hannah Rickards, Dieter Roth, Tony Smith, John Tremblay.

Exhibition open from October 15, 2009 until January 17, 2010.

Palais de Tokyo
13 avenue du Président Wilson
Paris