Invitation to the exhibition Tiny Lives, in the heart of the Panthéon’s nave (Copie)

“Tiny Lives” brings together around thirty artists and spans more than a century of artistic creation, from František Kupka to Jumana Manna.

By exploring the lives that have been forgotten or overlooked, and which artists have brought to light, the exhibition proposes a new way of writing history—one that takes into account, in the words of historian Saidiya Hartman, “the power and authority of the archive, and the limits it places on what can be known.”

Featured artists include Christian Boltanski (the installation Monument, 1986); Mathieu Pernot (Photomatons, 1995–1997); Teo Hernandez (two films, Gabriel and André Robillard, Michel Nedjar, 1985); and Clarisse Hahn (the sculpture Pierre, 2015).

The exhibition unfolds across three thematic sections:

• Big and Small: A Modern Anxiety
• The Minuscule, the Intimate, the Infamous
• From the Minuscule to the Monumental (and Back Again)

Join us for a guided tour on 8 December at 1:45 pm and 26 January from 11:15 am to 12:45 pm.

This multidisciplinary exhibition at the Panthéon marks the Centre des monuments nationaux’s entry into the Centre Pompidou’s Constellation programme.