For Monumenta 2016, artist Huang Yong Ping transformed the vast nave of the Grand Palais into a monumental reflection on power, history, and globalization. His installation featured rusted shipping containers marked in multiple languages, Napoleon Bonaparte’s iconic bicorne hat, and the towering metallic skeleton of a giant serpent. Through this striking composition, the artist interrogates mythical symbolism, the legacy of empires, and the ideological and material drifts of capitalism.

Developed in close collaboration with the artist, this immersive experience offers a unique walkthrough of the work as originally conceived—from its first scale model to the final installation.
Through the immersive VR format, viewers are invited to experience the overwhelming scale of the piece and to adopt the artist’s perspective, discovering visual angles and conceptual layers inaccessible to visitors of the physical exhibition.