Sound installation by Christian Boltanski

La Réserve des enfants I and II is located in a basement space of the museum, where children’s clothing is piled on metal shelving units, lit only by small lamps attached to the racks. Black-and-white photographs of anonymous children, taken from newspapers and magazines, are also dimly lit. Evoking absent bodies, the memory of a childhood forever lost, allusions to the tragedies of history, and relics of young lives gone, the work allows for multiple interpretations that echo one of the central themes of Boltanski’s practice: the fragility of memory and of human life.