Following the success of the first two Monumenta events, featuring Anselm Kiefer in 2007 and Richard Serra in 2008, leading French artist Christian Boltanski takes up the Monumenta challenge in 2010.

Boltanski's creation, made especially for Monumenta 2010, is conceived as a powerful physical and psychological experience, an episode of spectacular emotion and sensations. Embracing the whole of the immense Nave of the Grand Palais, Boltanski creates an intense, commemorative space. Personnes is the title of this social, religious and humanistic exploration of life and memory, and the role of the individual within the world. The work also explores the presence of death, the dehumanisation of the body, chance and destiny.

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