Remember Me

At the Bourse de Commerce, the exhibition “Remember Me” brings together around 700 works from the Pinault Collection for the bicentennial of photography. The itinerary links images created in very different eras and under very different circumstances. A portrait intended for the press, a landscape, or a self-portrait do not have the same function, but each can become what remains of a place, a face, or a moment.

The title comes from a Barbara Kruger work that addresses the viewer with a two-word request. This invitation to remember takes on particular meaning when confronted with the Marilyn Monroe portrait photographed by Richard Avedon in 1957. The image is familiar to us, but the face it shows is far from the promotional smile usually associated with the star. The more recent images by Tyler Mitchell likewise shift the question of portraiture toward intimacy and the space afforded to the photographed subjects.

On a museum scale, photography also takes time to regard the spaces themselves. A gallery brings together about fifty images by Raymond Depardon devoted to the French landscape. The itinerary thus reveals several ways of constructing memory, from the isolated image that imprints itself on the mind to the series that allows revisiting, photo after photo, the same subject.

Practical information
- Closed on Tuesdays.
- Friday evening hours until 9 p.m. Free admission on the first Saturday of the month from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- There may be a wait to access the Raymond Depardon Gallery.