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J’AI DEUX AMOURS
A presentation of the contemporary art collections
of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration

FROM NOVEMBER 16 TO JUNE 24 2012

106 works from the contemporary art fund to give another image of immigration

Djamel Tatah, un-titled - (The Hittistes) 2008 / 4 paintings, Oil and wax on canvas (205.5 x 173.5 cm). Collection of the Musée national de l'histoire et des cultures de l'immigration, CNHI © ADAGP Paris 2011

 

CITÉ NATIONALE DE L'HISTOIRE DE L'IMMIGRATION

293, avenue Daumesnil
75012 PARIS

INFORMATION:

• Tel. + 33 (0)1 53 59 58 60
http:// www.histoire-immigration.fr

OPENING HOURS:

• Tuesday to Friday: 10 AM - 5: 30 PM, Saturday and Sunday: 10 AM - 7 PM.
• Open until 6:30 PM on Thursdays of conferences at the UniverCité.
• Until 8:30 PM on Fridays 10 February, 9 March and 13 April 2012.

ADMISSION PRICE:

• Full rate: 5 € - Reduced rate: 3.5 €
• These rates include the admission price to the permanent exhibition.
• Free admission: under 26 years of age and every first Sunday of each month

CURATORSHIP:

Hou Hanru, Evelyne Jouanno et Isabelle Renard

PRESS CONTACT:

• Ratiba Kheniche.
Tel: 01 53 59 58 70 - 06 77 66 94 67
• E-mail: ratiba.kheniche@histoire-immigration.fr


The Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration decided, when it was created, to bring contemporary art into its collections. It enriches the historic and anthropologic perspective of artists' interpretation of exile, the notion of borders or the question of people's identity, increasingly present in a world of cultural, economic and digital mutations. From Kader Attia to Chen Zhen, from Mona Hatoum to Mathieu Pernot, from Bruno Serralongue to Djamel Tatah, «J'ai deux amours» (I have two loves) shows to what point thoughts on immigration inhabit art today.


A reference centre

The Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration that opened to the public in the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, in 2007, is a cultural multidisciplinary institution as it holds a museum, a room for shows, a movie theatre, a library and a venue for debates. Together with the musée National de l'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Immigration (national museum on the history and culture of immigration), a cultural program, a centre of resources and of reference and a network of partners, its mission is to bring together, protect, give value and make accessible to the largest number of persons the history of immigration, and to have the public know and recognize the role immigration played in the building of France.


Immigration = transformation

In the exhibition «J'ai deux amours», «immigration, whether temporary or long lasting, is no longer a passage but rather a transformation» (Hou Hanru and Evelyne Jouanno, guest curators). Mobility, as seen by the artists, is not only geographic, it is also a way of living, of creating, of regenerating. Today's artists are citizens of the global village and are in transit between their original cultures and the cultural capitals of Paris, New York, Berlin, London, New Delhi or Beirut… Their works, often the reflection of these crossed-identities, are the proof of the tension felt in this uprooting and the latter becomes the venue itself of the artists' creativity.


Chen Zhen, Un-interrupted Voice 1998 / Chairs, wood, cow-hide, string, chain (94 x 186 x 44 cm) Collection Musée national de l'histoire et des cultures de l'immigration, CNHI / Ph. Bertrand Huet, Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Bejing / Le Moulin

An itinerary in five themes

Hou Hanru, Evelyne Jouanno and Isabelle Renard, the curators of the «J'ai deux amours» exhibition, have selected 106 works from the contemporary art fund of the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration and imagined an itinerary through five themes: Departure - voyages - traffic / Between dream and necessity /Frontiers: passages and controls / Living together / Reinventing one's universe.
Eli Commins, Pierre-Yves Chapalain, Cheveu and Yroyto: in order to accompany the exhibition, the Cité commissioned various young artists to work on the theme of the exhibition. Round tables, cinema, readings, theatre, kids workshops, performances… contribute to go in depth into the objective of the exhibition in the form of unique creations.


PUBLICATION:

Catalogue La collection d'art contemporain, CNHI-Montag Editions, 2011, 244 p, 14.50 €