Collectors are unique in that they can more freely indulge in their passion. Through the works they accumulate, they express their relationship to the world and who they are. Since ever, Agnès b. has been collecting artworks with this particular position of being herself a major figure of the French art scene.
In this selection, there are jumbles of themes that are emerging as declamations: WORKING! REBELL ! LOVE!, while gender issues or of eternal youth are always underlying. These themes precisely structure the contemporary art collection of the National Museum of the History of Immigration: go, arrive, rebuild a life and an intimacy, work…
This is the story , these stories that we want to share with the public of the National Museum of the History of Immigration, and trying to establish a dialogue between two collections that share the belief that art and culture are tremendous vehicles for telling simple stories, sensitive, accessible to all.
Sam Stourdzé
Sam Stourdzé is the director of the annual festival Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles.
LIVE !!, 70 works from the collection of Agnes B.
October 18, 2016 to January 8, 2017
Palais de la Porte Dorée
293 Avenue Daumesnil
75012 Paris
France
