Cover Story, May 2016: Material histories – spilling the beans at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
Tue, May 10 2016
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"In pondering a museum’s memories you seldom think of coffee beans. Yet at CAPC Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux, burnished nuggets of the past in the form of the seeds of Coffea arabica occasionally materialise, as if out of nowhere. One day one might appear atop a pile of papers on an office desk; weeks later, another bean might show up in the middle of one of the exhibition galleries. A look on top of a shelf in the library might harvest several. During Latitudes’ recent residency at CAPC, François Poisay from the exhibition team showed us the stash he has been squirrelling away in his desk for years."
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Related content:
- Archive of Cover Stories.
- History of the Entrepôt Lainé, CAPC's building (pdf in French).
