Artists: Philippe Aïni, Sylvie Blanchard, Chto Delat ?, Guillaume Condat, Dado, Yann Darçon, Sylvia De Biasi, Fred Deux, Patricia Escudé, Jacques Fauché, Eugène Gabritschevsky, Georgik, Marie Jakobowicz, Bouchra Khalili, Michel Macréau, Janine Mongillat, Sylvain Montané, Alfonso-Angel Ossorio, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Hans Silvester, Ursula, Bas Van Beek, Qiu Zhijie

The Museum Gone Astray is a proposal for a phantom museum that could appear anywhere and everywhere. It opens for the first time in Toulouse at Musée Paul Dupuy during LE Printemps de septembre 2016. The Museum Gone Astray borrows from the many collections preserved and cared for by the city of Toulouse in its museums and stores, and brings them together to make new stories. By showing them together, new connections can be made and possibilities that were hidden can be revealed.

In common with most museums, The Museum Gone Astray is interested in how the past speaks about the present and the future. It flourishes by finding images and ideas that respond to the spirit of the contemporary moment. ‘Gone astray’ could be understood here representing positive deviations from the consensus of experts about where art or society is headed. These deviations, once recognized, can suddenly become meaningful to the present in the light of a particular event or a general feeling in society. The Museum Gone Astray in Toulouse looks especially at the problems brought about by what is generally called modernity. It suggests that previously excluded ways of thinking can add something meaningful to the present crisis of mind, spirit and body. It wants to see what might happen if some of those rejected ideas are brought back into circulation.