Tezi Gabunia's video imagines Louvre flooding at Armory Show

At the Armory Show in New York, Georgian artist Tezi Gabunia is presenting 'Breaking News: The Flooding of the Louvre,' a video work begun in 2018 that depicts a gallery in the Louvre Museum in Paris progressively flooding with water. The apocalyptic scenario, while fictional, resonates with real threats from climate change and recalls an actual 2018 incident when the Seine River caused minor flooding at the Louvre, forcing the closure of one floor and the relocation of many masterpieces. Gabunia describes the video as a commentary on how media shapes our perception of disasters, questioning whether information has become a new genre of reality and whether events can be reported realistically. The Armory Show, a historic contemporary art fair, runs in New York until March 8.