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Photographie (2017). Misterios (2017) "Boltanski seeks an answer to the question of destiny. When he heard that certain indigenous peoples believe whales hold the key, he travelled to Bahía Bustamante, Patagonia, to see the whales along the coastline himself. With the help of acoustic engineers, Boltanski installed wind horns that emit sounds like those of whale song. In this remote place, these sound objects are doomed to disappear; only videoprojections of the project will remain." Les Regards (2011) "This major work, among his most striking, is composed of photographs of the anonymous dead from a TV program on the Holocaust. Boltanski has created many versions of this work, including in large format for display in certain cities. This version is composed of veils printed with the upper part of a face which utter in a breeze created by fans, illuminated by electric lamps. Viewers are intended to walk through these veils." —

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View of the exhibition Lifetime , Jerusalem, The Israel Museum (2018).

Monument Collège d’Hulst (1986) "Boltanski used a

photograph taken at Hulst College, where he was a student. Inspired by religious monuments, this work relates to Composition Occidentale (1980), which evoked a Christmas tree made of wrapping paper. This artistic device in uenced the Monuments series (1985) based on portraits of middle school students lining a school hallway in 1973."

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Photographs, sockets, light bulbs, electrical wires (2019).

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