Mircea Cantor's First Solo Show in France at Frac Champagne-Ardenne

Mircea Cantor's first solo exhibition in France, held at Frac Champagne-Ardenne in Reims from May 3 to July 15, 2007, featured works that blend local and global references. The centerpiece, "Rosace," is a large wheel made from recycled Coca-Cola and Fanta cans transformed into ashtrays by Romanian street vendors in Paris, evoking the rose window of Reims Cathedral and Central European migration. Another work, a piece of Le Monde newspaper with a red felt plural added, opens Western history to other spaces and cultures. "Chapelet" is a mural of fingerprints forming barbed wire, combining political and social organization with fragile human presence. The film "Shadow, for a while," produced during a residency in Reims, shows a flag's shadow tearing away from its pole, suggesting the end of a regime or the beginning of freedom, wrapped in nostalgia.