A prolific, obsessive and deliberately provocative photographer, Araki Nobuyoshi has been a key figure in the history of Japanese and international photography since the 1960s.
Produced between 1997 and 2024, the Polaroids by Araki presented in the exhibition were gradually acquired from mainly French and Japanese galleries over the last 25 years by collector Stéphane André, who donated them to the Guimet Museum on May 2025. Displayed in the rotunda on the fourth floor of the museum, POLARAKI presents the installation designed by the collector for his apartment: 43 columns composed of 9 frames arranged edge to edge from floor to ceiling. Each frame is composed of one, two, three or four Polaroids, arranged in combinations chosen partly by Araki and partly by the collector.
