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Corps et âmes

With around a hundred works from the Pinault Collection, the Bourse de Commerce is presenting the exhibition ‘Corps et âmes’, an exploration of the representation of the body in contemporary art. From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, Georg Baselitz to Ana Mendieta, David Hammons to Marlene Dumas, Arthur Jafa to Ali Cherri, some forty artists explore the links between body and mind through painting, sculpture, photography, video and drawing.

"The Passage de la Bourse de Commerce is home to works by Ali Cherri, a Lebanese artist living in France. In his youth, he was marked by the civil war in Lebanon, and in particular by the spoliations, thefts and trafficking of works of art that wars engender. Using the twenty-four display cases, the museum's most important device for presenting objects, his work is also inspired by cinema and its twenty-four images per second: his sculptures are thought of as ghostly flashes in a liminal space between life and death, between the past and the present, inviting us to reflect on the age-old manipulation of cultural artefacts."
— Emma Lavigne, General Director of the Collection, General Curator

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