Memory Net: Pandémie 
Rue Visconti, Paris 
October 2022

Participants in San-Germain-Des-Pres art district in Paris, France were asked to suggest symbolic objects which reminded them of their Covid-19 pandemic experiences.

​These symbolic objects were cut into the meter-30-foot-long paper Memory Net by Lauren Iida during her exhibition, Anticipation, at Galerie Lee in San-Germain-Des-Pres art district in Paris, France during the month of October 2022. 

Iida was inspired when she discovered the exact site of Christo and Jean-Claude's first installation, Wall of Oil Barrels (1962) which was directly in front of the gallery she was exhibiting at on the narrow Paris street, Rue Visconti.

Wall of Oil Barrels was created to protest the Berlin Wall by demonstrating how obstructive a physical barrier is to communities, separating loved ones and disrupting commerce.

Photo: Greg Mo

Iida strung her finished paper installation, Memory Net: Pandémie across Rue Visconti and worked with photographer, Greg Mo to document the installation. Memory Net: Pandémie memorializes our shared Covid-19 pandemic experience through collective memories, and honors the historic work once here of Christo and Jean-Claude. ​

Photo: Greg Mo

"Wall of Oil Barrels" (1962) Christo & Jean-Claude, Rue Visconti, Paris

Photo: Greg Mo