Artists' perspectives, exhibition of contemporary works on the Holocaust

This exhibition was presented from 12 December 2018 to 10 February 2019 at the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris.

After the success of the exhibition Shoah and Comic Strip which showed how the 9th art had little by little invested the question of genocide, the Memorial proposes a focus on contemporary artistic creation. Indeed, after the war, many artists choose to challenge the public on genocide and ways of representing memory, and beyond that, on the disappearance of the individual.

For the first time since its reopening in 2005, the Memorial de la Shoah offers its entire temporary exhibition space to contemporary artistic creation, with 5 works, installations from figures of contemporary French art: Sylvie Blocher (with Gérard Haller), Arnaud Cohen, Natacha Nisic, Esther Shalev-Gerz, as well as a proposal by the historian Christian Delage.

The Shoah Memorial has often invited artists to intervene in its exhibitions, soliciting their sensitivity to associate it with its mission of transmitting the memory of the Shoah. Thus, several important works punctuate the course of the permanent exhibition so much the point of view of artists seems essential in this work of memory.

Through works sometimes reflective, sometimes immersive and performative, the Holocaust Memorial invites everyone to discover different perspectives, as many subjective expressions in the face of the drama of the Shoah that go beyond the strictly historical approach and raise questions between the past and the present.

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