Cotton Under My Feet – Walid Raad Randa Chahal Sabbagh Depuis le pays des volcans

Depuis le pays des volcans jusqu'à la région des lacs

He is currently living and working in Paris

this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation

But even more

and currently living on the unceded land of the Lenape people

Cotton Under My Feet – Walid Raad Randa Chahal Sabbagh Depuis le pays des volcansHow does a private art collection become public? Who was Hans Heinrich Thyssen Bornemisza? These questions are at the heart of Cotton under My Feet, a new project by New York based Lebanese artist Walid Raad (born 1967) conceived for the Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, coinciding with the centennial of its original founder. From the depths of the museum's archives, Raad unearthed fragments of stories, fictional documents and puzzling artifacts.