Celebrating more than 30 years of collecting, the exhibition pays tribute to Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s passion for photography, reflecting both their personal taste and their unique perspective as collectors. Selected from their collection of over 7,000 images, the photographs on display are iconic works that explore the connection between the strength and vulnerability inherent in the human condition.

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Fragile Beauty

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Through gestures that are at once simple, minimal and spectacular, the sculptures of Jesse Darling (2023 winner of the Turner Prize) bring to light the latent narratives embedded in the objects, materials, and forms that shape our daily lives. Working primarily with industrial materials, found items, and discarded objects gathered from the areas surrounding his exhibitions, he assembles these elements into unusual compositions, hybrid relics and fantastical landscapes, emphasizing the visible effects of time on it, between exhaustion and decay, underscoring their fragility.

“I exist in a vaporous state. I am truly glitter in mid-air.” It is from this place of suspension that Benoît Piéron conceived Shadow Polish. Drawing on his experience of hospitals and living with illness, the French artist creates alternative representations of spaces, bodies and the emotions embedded in them. From hallucinatory waiting rooms and laundromats, to subdued emergency beacons glowing like nightlights and strobes filtering from beneath a hospital door, Benoît Piéron stretches familiar spaces through a practice of appropriation that blends sculpture and installation with techniques drawn from arts and crafts and DIY culture.

Palais de Tokyo exhibitions - Les ambassadeurs, Jesse Darling / Vernis à ombres, Benoît Piéron

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International Circle

Acquisition Group for Design

Acquisition Group for Photography

Acquisition Group for Contemporary Art

 Acquisition Group for the French Scene from the 1950s to the 1980s

Mission Recherche

As part of a series of tours of female artists’ studios, the Amis invite you to visit the studio of an artist whose name will be announced shortly.

With Annalisa Rimmaudo, attachée de conservation au Service des collections contemporaines

Encounter - Artist TBC