Entitled “Remember Me,” in reference to an original work by Barbara Kruger that will be shown in the Rotunda of the museum, the exhibition pays tribute to the photographic medium. Through masterpieces and icons from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition is like a fugue. Constructed as a free-ranging journey without any chronology, it elicits unexpected correspondences and dialogues between genres and eras to offer viewers an open, sensorially driven experience of the history of photography.
Featuring gallery artists Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, the exhibition showcases historical photographs to contemporary images, from Gustave Le Gray to Cindy Sherman, and from Dorothea Lange to Wolfgang Tillmans, by way of Man Ray and Louise Lawler, the Pinault Collection embraces the entire history of the photographic medium. It also showcases the breadth of its aesthetics and techniques. Presenting it in its entirety on the occasion of the bicentenary of the invention of photography feels especially relevant. And, through a selection of approximately seven hundred works, this is precisely what the exhibition "Remember Me" does, for the first time ever.
