Philippe Quesne: Night of the Moles

French theater director and visual artist Philippe Quesne invites you into a mysterious underground world where larger-than-life moles are not solitary creatures but the architects of something between a utopian community and a punk rock band.

A burrow. Seven giant moles emerge from cardboard tunnels. They dig, cook, draw, copulate, give birth, and even form a punk-rock band. A disconcerting microcosm that could only have come from Philippe Quesne’s imagination. Wordless theater of the ecological and philosophical underground, this is an improbable journey to the center of the earth.

“Mr. Quesne specializes in finding the marvelous in the minor, the awesome in the resolutely everyday.” — New York Times