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Remember Me

Photo : Courtesy de l’artiste et de Sprüth Magers. Pinault Collection

Oct 14 – Dec 31

Remember Me

Forget timelines and conventional galleries, as this massive retrospective invites you to wander freely through the evolution of photography. From historic masterpieces to contemporary works, you will discover how these iconic prints serve as permanent anchors for our fleeting memories. It is an unmissable chance to see the legends of the camera lens engage in a silent, powerful dialogue.

Bourse de commerce - Pinault Collection (Paris 1st)

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Running until December 31, 2026, at the Bourse de Commerce, the Remember Me exhibition celebrates the bicentennial of photography. Featuring around seven hundred works from the Pinault Collection, this expansive show explores the medium's history through iconic figures like Gustave Le Gray, Cindy Sherman, and Man Ray. The exhibition offers a non-chronological journey, inviting visitors to reflect on photography's capacity to preserve memory and bridge different artistic eras. Wheelchair accessible, this event welcomes all visitors with tickets priced between 0 and 15 euros. It provides a unique opportunity to witness the evolution of photographic techniques and aesthetics within a stunning historic setting.

Titled "Remember Me," in reference to an original work by Barbara Kruger that occupies the museum's Rotunda, the exhibition offers a tribute to the photographic medium. Through masterpieces and icons from the Pinault Collection, the journey is akin to a fugue: a free traversal, without chronology, that allows for unexpected correspondences and dialogues between genres and eras, offering the visitor a sensitive and open experience of the history of photography.

From heritage photography to the contemporary image, from Gustave Le Gray to Cindy Sherman, from Dorothea Lange to Wolfgang Tillmans, and including Man Ray or Louise Lawler, the Pinault Collection embraces the entire history of the photographic medium. It also reflects all its aesthetics and techniques. Presenting it in its entirety on the occasion of the bicentenary of the invention of photography is a logical step. Through a selection of about seven hundred works, this is what the "Remember Me" exhibition does for the first time, its title resonating in a thousand ways.

"Among the objects that have a particular relationship with memory, photography occupies a very special place today. In 1827, this process was initially praised for its ability to reproduce reality with unprecedented fidelity. It would nevertheless quickly come to embody the best material representation of mnemonic images, and Charles Baudelaire, as early as 1859, discerned this memorial value. To freeze a moment in time, to immortalize a face, to make the inescapable ephemeral nature of existence live and survive: this is what photography implies in its essence. Not to forget. To fill the gaps in our memories. To revive and nourish our history by thwarting death. For while an evocation is by nature evanescent, a photograph, on the contrary, remains. Like a paper relic, photography celebrates the present while allowing us to contemplate what was but is no more."
— Matthieu Humery, Photography Advisor, Pinault Collection

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Located in the 1st arrondissement, the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection hosts Remember Me, an ambitious retrospective dedicated to the history of photography. From October 7, 2026, to December 31, 2026, you can explore a selection of approximately seven hundred seminal works. The layout functions as a fugue, a free-flowing path where eras and styles converse without the constraints of strict chronology. You will encounter masterpieces by renowned artists including Dorothea Lange, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Louise Lawler, covering the breadth of the medium from its origins to contemporary digital expressions.

The exhibition title, inspired by a Barbara Kruger work in the Rotonde, emphasizes photography's unique role as a vessel for memory. By capturing a specific moment, the photograph transforms into a relic that allows us to contemplate the past. The museum welcomes visitors every day except Tuesday: on Fridays from 11:00 to 21:00, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11:00 to 19:00. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. Tickets are priced between 0 and 15 euros. This is an essential visit for anyone wishing to experience how photography nourishes our shared history by defying the transience of time.

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