Barjac, a town in the country side in southern France, is where artist Anselm Kiefer spent years transforming a derelict silk factory into a strange visual utopia.

he built the whole place up as an installation with strange wobbly towers and other ruins resembling a lost civilization. Large scale earth art that recalls Watts Towers,  James Turrell’s Rodin Crater, and a touch of Burning Man.

“Kiefer devised an artistic project extending over acres: miles of corridors, huge studio spaces with ambitious landscape paintings and sculptures that correspond to monumental constructions in the surrounding woodland, and serpentine excavated labyrinths with great earthy columns that resemble stalagmites or termite mounds.” was how the Guardian described it.

Keifer has since moved on, leaving his eccentric utopia for us to visit….

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