Bâmiyân, Pascal Convert
(Part of Catherine Millet’s theme: History)

The artist Pascal Convert has confronted the cliff of Bamiyan, whose two immense Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. Using thousands of 3D scans and photographic records taken with a state-of-the-art scientific device, he created a monumental work that forms a very precise view of the 1,800-meter long cliff and the hundreds of cave shrines that make it up. 

The work offers a new perception of this panorama which is revealed in fragments, in all its physicality, throughout the pages, and testifies to the richness of this historical site which is bound to disappear, victim of the mechanisms of erosion.

Several historical, critical and literary essays tell the exceptional character of its history and open up the multiple facets of this work, which is at once documentary, artistic and spiritual.

Atelier EXB/MNAAG, 2022
Text in French
Hard cover
31 x 20 cm
164 pages
ISBN: 978-2-36511-332-8