DAVE ALLEN / MICOL ASSAËL / CHRISTOPH BÜCHEL / DORA WINTER /
GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON / DAVID FINCHER / TOM FRIEDMAN /
RYAN GANDER / ROBERT GOBER / ROBERT KUSMIROWSKI /
PAUL LAFFOLEY / TONY MATELLI / OLA PEHRSON /
CHARLOTTE POSENENSKE / HANNAH RICKARDS / DIETER ROTH /
TONY SMITH / JOHN TREMBLAY /

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. On the heels of GAKONA and SPY NUMBERS, the electromagnetic specter and the infra-mince,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.