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

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

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

For the first time since its reopening in 2005, the Shoah Memorial offers its entire temporary exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art, with 5 works, installations inspired by figures of French contemporary 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 participate 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 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 the past and the present.

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