This publication examines 12 installations, featuring practitioners from Australia (Fiona Foley, Rosalie Gascoigne, Lyndal Jones, Ramingining artists), Asia (Montien Boonma and Yukinori Yanagi), Europe (Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager and Richard Wilson) and America (Alfredo Jaar and Bill Viola). Their works are metaphors which mix reality and the virtual, playing with wit and triggered associations.