Gold Rush, the free amusement park at Lafayette Anticipations for the Olympic season

Lafayette Anticipations is getting into the spirit of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and transforming itself into an unprecedented playground! From June 19 to September 1, 2024, the museum is offering art lovers and the curious a brand new exhibition, entitled La Ruée vers l'or (The Gold Rush). Much more than an exhibition, it's a total immersion in an amusement park designed by the innovative minds of 40 high school students, in collaboration with Ateliers Médicis and ebb.global. These young talents invite us to explore their dreams and preoccupations through a playful, interactive experience, reflecting a world both deranged and ideal. Ateliers Médicis is also offering part of the works from June 1 to July 28, 2024.

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This project is the fruit of meticulous, multi-year work, orchestrated by ebb.global, the teaching staff and, of course, the high school students themselves. The park is intended as an in-depth reflection on new sporting practices, born of the overflowing imagination of these young people, inspired by atypical sporting routes or proposing new rules of the game. Theexhibition space, borrowing visual codes from the entertainment industry, offers a bold alternative to our society, questioning its values and established norms.

Through this exhibition, the collaboration between the Alfred Nobel high school in Clichy-sous-Bois, Ateliers Médicis and ebb. global aims to enhance the skills of young people and open up new career paths. La Ruée vers l'or doesn't just provide entertainment: it is a veritable dream machine, reimagining amusement parks as places for reflection and inspiration. Through models, installations and a manga published for the occasion, this multidisciplinary project offers a unique vision of the great contemporary myths, inviting everyone to let themselves be carried away on a journey to the heart of the collective imagination. Ready for an entertaining and colorful journey?