Terre Natale is an exhibition at Jean Nouvel’s Cartier Foundation about people displaced by conflict and natural disasters, based on the work of Paul Virilio.
I am not a fan of Virilio (I am not a fan of anyone whose bio includes both of the words French and philosopher, to be honest) but this exhibition is both excellent and groundbreaking.
It includes a stupendous cylindrical projection of animated quantitative data representing the flow of displaced people, wordwide, in an environment designed by Diller Scoffidio + Renfro.
Michael Zick Doherty worked on the stunning graphics which were produced using the open source data visualization application, Processing.
The only problem with the animations, is that they are so beautiful and seductive that you have to consciously remember that what is being explained is a global tragedy. This is perhaps the sad but unavoidable result of the quasi-autistic nature of quantitative over qualitative.