PERSONNES

Rags of dissolved humanity
“Personnes” is an impressive installation by Boltanski created for the Grand Palais in Paris: abandoned clothes as a metaphor of our destiny.
The title contains the seeds of ambiguity.
Because in French it means person but also nobody.
This artist is obsessed by the death trying to build a barrier to the passage of time.

Tons of old clothes, empty shells belonged to who knows who, it could be summarized in the apparently to “remember the unknown people.”
He likes to repeat that “an exhibition is not a fun place but a place where, if it is not required to pray, we must at least think.”
Boltanski gives us a work that leaves a deep impression, stimulating all our senses.
Meanwhile the cold, icy, he did not even asked for the heating, so that the ice could become part of a total experience as all his works should be.
“The audience should not be in front but inside the work, which should completely be wrapped by it. “Personnes” is designed to be a tough experience ”
Reached  a certain age his demands are more and more universal and always make us  have the constant feeling of crossing a minefield: you see others dying around him, and without reason we survive. Until such time that we jump. ”
Come to maturity, her questions become more and more universal and make  us the eternal question on our destiny.