Pascal Convert is an artist, historian, and writer whose work centers on the question of memory and oblivion. In 1989, he was a resident at the Villa Medici. In 1998, Georges Didi-Huberman devoted a book to his work, La demeure, la souche, followed by Sur le fil, both published by Éditions de Minuit.
Pascal Convert is the author of emblematic and politically engaged works that grapple with history and memory —among them : the monumental bronze bell honoring the hostages and Resistance fighters executed at Mont-Valérien between 1941 and 1944, inscribed with the names of the one thousand and eight identified victims (2002); and the set of fourteen stained-glass windows portraying insane children from the nineteenth century for the Abbey Church of Saint-Gildas-des-Bois (2008).
From the early 2000s onward, he produced wax sculptures inspired by press icons from nearby conflicts (Kosovo, Algeria, Palestine) and continued his research on the French Resistance, publishing biographies of Joseph Epstein—Resistance fighter executed at Mont-Valérien and leader of the Manouchian group—and of Raymond Aubrac.
In 2016, Pascal Convert traveled to Afghanistan, where he created a work recalling the destruction, on 19 March 2001 by the Taliban, of the giant Buddha statues carved into the cliff at Bamiyan. This sixteen-meter-long panoramic photographic work is currently on view in the Galerie du Temps at the Louvre-Lens. His collaboration with Georges Didi-Huberman continued on this occasion with the creation of an artist’s book titled Antres-temps.
His more recent projects have focused on questions of memory in Armenia, particularly the destruction of the khachkars—carved steles dating from the twelfth to eighteenth centuries—by the Azerbaijani authorities.
Straddling current events and the complexity of historical time, the monograph Pascal Convert, co-published with the CNAP and Flammarion, retraces for the first time the entirety of his work (2024).