Every Life is a Story. Art and Stories. 200 Perspectives on Immigration and the Palais.
Every Life is a Story looks back over twenty years of acquisitions for the collection and its three collections—History, Testimonies and Society, and Contemporary Art—to offer a new narrative through the prism of invisibility, which is, in many ways, linked to immigration.
Making visible a reality made of invisibility is the primary mission of the National Museum of the History of Immigration: "changing perspectives," making known and recognized the history of immigration in France, and contributing to the recognition of those who have also shaped France. How can we give body and face to anonymous figures, relegated to the margins, tolerated in invisibility, but challenged when they become visible? How can we put collective history and individual journeys into perspective and shed light?
These are all questions at the heart of the Museum's collections that can be explored in this new exhibition. 200 works of art, archival documents, photographs, videos, paintings, objects, and stories of migration belonging to the three collections interact in order to unearth this part of our history and transmit the memory and words of the witnesses of these contemporary odysseys.
November 8, 2024 - February 9, 2025
