The History of Tears

Bourse de commerce - Pinault Collection, 2, rue de Viarmes

Pinault Collection presents, in the Rotonde and the twenty-four display cases of the Bourse de Commerce, an exhibition by the American artist Barbara Kruger, The History of Tears. Specifically designed for the Rotonde and the museum’s vitrines, Kruger’s show confronts visitors with an uninterrupted flow of words, phrases and injunctions, filmed sequences and voices. At the heart of the museum, the curved walls by Tadao Ando become the surface for monumental quotations borrowed notably from literary works…