The Louvre-Lens Dedicates an Exhibition to Art and Exile

Exile is nothing new – it has affected humanity throughout history, and it can take many forms beyond mere geography. The Louvre-Lens in northern France explores the links between art and exile in a multi-disciplinary programme that brings together painting, sculpture, music and performing arts with a range of approaches and themes.

The event reframes exile in the context of the long history of art, from the great myths and founding narratives to contemporary creation. Homer, Ovid, Jacques Louis David, Manet, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Victor Hugo, Gustave Courbet, Marc Chagall, Yan Pei-Ming… innumerable artists have probed the complexity of displacement. With nearly 200 works, visitors are invited to inhabit the concepts of departure, arrival, uprooting, encounters. welcoming, remembering and sharing, through the lens of manifold artistic expressions of the human experience of exile.

September 25 – January 20

www.louvrelens.fr

From France Today Magazine