Christian Boltanski

Alexis Dahan | The Brooklyn Rail | 9th February 2020

Even though Boltanski’s family dodged the Holocaust, death is central to his art. It bothers him that people die without recognition. He often works with the ephemera of life – recordings of heartbeats, obituary photos, lost property. Much of his art tries to “create legends and mythology … It’s not about the object it’s about being aware of its existence.”