(Top left) Stamps in the window display. (Top right) Symbolic national emblems and objects. (Bottom image) Exhibition view of "Grow Your Own Government." Peter Ciffin’s solo exhibition Grow Your Own Government (Etats-faites-le vous meme), on view from February 1 to May 6 at the Palais de Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum in Paris, is one of the projects under the major theme "News from the Upside-Down," following the previous major theme "Five Billion Years." This contemporary art exploration mixes art, politics, anarchism, provocation, and fiction around a utopian ideal, revolving around all small nations in the world (existing or not), sovereign governments, independent states, separatist movements, and other political regimes as concepts. Of course, "Etat" refers to a regime or state, meaning the system through which a state exercises its authority; it differs from "Nation," which involves ethnicity or national form. It is presented through conceptual art and object installations. The entire exhibition space resembles a World’s Fair, hung with colorful flags that people have never seen before. Naturally, a sovereign independent state, royal regime, or nation must have symbolic national flags, anthems, coins, stamps, and other emblematic objects, but it does not necessarily have territory. These utopian ideal states are created by those dissatisfied with governments, anarchists, provocateurs, egoists, or artists. These kingdoms or utopias exist within their imagined artistic realms, exercising the right to diverse imaginative intentions and seeking royal titles, even creating new civilizations. Thus, Peter Ciffin’s exhibition is constructed upon these fictional objects of political emblems, and the entire presentation serves as a response to the current atmosphere of globalized politics.