Blue / Night: Art after the camps, an exhibition by Shelomo Selinger

Follow the BLEU / NUIT exhibition at the Memorial de la Shoah in Drancy dedicated to the work of Shelomo Selinger, an artist whose trajectory and testimony resonate deeply with the history of the Shoah. The exhibition brings together a selection of emblematic works, reflecting the themes dear to the artist - the celebration of life and the commemoration of the disappeared - as well as his preferred techniques, such as direct-cut sculpture, bas-reliefs, drawings and xylographs.

Located at the Shoah Memorial in front of the former Drancy internment camp, this exhibition pays tribute to Shelomo Selinger's exceptional career. Through some sixty works, some never before exhibited or reproduced, visitors are invited to explore the richness and diversity of his artistic oeuvre - imbued with a profound humanistic scope.

Who is Shelomo Selinger? Born on May 31, 1928 in Szczakowa (Krakow), he was interned in 1941 in the Chrzanow ghetto, then deported to eight camps before being liberated in May 1945 from the Theresienstadt camp. In March 1946, while attempting to reach Palestine, he was interned in the Atlit camp. In 1955, he and his wife Ruth Schiapirovsky moved to Paris. Shelomo Selinger, trained at the Beaux-arts, takes on several commissions for commemorative monuments.

Curated by :

Paul Bernard-Nouraud, Art historian and theorist, doctor in aesthetics from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
Curator, general coordination of the exhibition and catalog
Marie Deparis-Yafil, Art critic and independent curator in charge of general coordination, museography and scenography.
Hélène Degout, graphic designer
Eléonore Ward, in charge of the Drancy Memorial

Free admission during Memorial opening hours. See you in the room Level -1
The end date of the exhibition is for information only, as indicated "until the end of the year".)