"All men have a secret attraction for ruins" wrote Chateaubriand. From the Roman Empire to the imaginary worlds of comics, from Egypt and the Americas to the most distant civilizations, the exhibition Forms of Ruin establishes a dialogue between all types of ruins. The aim is to question societies throughout history and, at the same time, to discover the work carried out by contemporary artists in their desire to document and interpret the ruins of our industrial societies and to imagine our future.
Based on the reflections of Alain Schnapp, archaeologist and historian, author of the important "Une histoire universelle des ruines", published in 2020, Forms of Ruin aims to offer the public a plastic and visual transposition of his thinking, with over 300 works presented, from the primitive arts to contemporary art.
