Regards d'artistes, exhibition of contemporary works on the Shoah

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

After the success of the exhibition Shoah and Comic strip which showed how the 9th art had gradually invested the question of genocide, the Memorial offers a focus on contemporary artistic creation. Indeed, after the war, many artists choose to engage the public on genocide and modes of memory representation, and beyond that, on the disappearance of the individual.

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

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

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

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