Christian Boltanski`s first solo exhibition in London since 2010 on view at Marian Goodman Gallery
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Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting Christian Boltanski’s first solo exhibition in London since 2010. He uses photography, sculpture and film to create large-scale installations that engage with shared preoccupations while being rooted in the artist’s own history. Conceived as a complete installation, the exhibition includes several substantial new film pieces. Boltanski leads visitors into this exhibition through a suspended veiled passage coalescing personal and communal memories. Bisecting the ground floor, La Traversée de la vie (The Crossing of Life) revisits images Boltanski worked with for a 1971 piece entitled Album de photos de la Famille D. For this seminal piece, he used photographs from a 1950s family album belonging to one of his friends. While endeavoring to reconstruct it chronologically, he sensed this process didn’t