Patrick Zachmann
Trips down memory lane
26.05.2023 - 20.08.2023 ,
Kunstfoyer (Art Foyer)
"Is one still Jewish if one does not know one's religion and culture?" From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, French photographer Patrick Zachmann (born 1955) conducted research on the lives of Jews in France and was himself in search of his own identity. From Paris to Marseille, from strictly Orthodox to non-religious, from the textile wholesalers in the Sentier district of Paris to the last typesetter of the communist daily newspaper Naye Prese in Yiddish, he captured the different facets of French Jewry, this against the backdrop of the anti-Semitic attacks that first resumed in the 1980s after the Second World War.
The exhibition, conceived by director Paul Salmona of the mahJ (Jewish Museum, Paris) together with Patrick Zachmann, shows around 200 photographs, including numerous unpublished images, from the late 1970s to 2015, which the photographer has annotated, as well as the film La Mémoire de mon père. It reveals to us a humanistic gaze nourished by the Jewish experience and defined by the universal questions of exile, disappearance and forgetting.
Last edited on 12.06.2024
