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TAKRETI in the collections of the National Museum of the History of Immigration

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29 April 2025

Right Bank, Bilal Hamdad, 2021
Credit © EPPPD, collection of the National Museum of the History of Immigration

Each Life is a Story revisits twenty years of acquisitions from the museum’s collection and its three main holdings—history, testimonies and society, and contemporary art—to offer a new narrative through the lens of invisibility, which is, in many ways, linked to immigration.

Making visible a reality shaped by invisibility is the primary mission of the National Museum of the History of Immigration: to “change perceptions,” to make the history of immigration in France known and recognized, and to contribute to the acknowledgment of those who have also helped build France. How can we give bodies and faces to the anonymous, those relegated to the margins, tolerated in invisibility, yet contested when they become visible? How can we put into perspective and highlight the collective history and individual journeys?

These are some of the key questions at the heart of the Museum’s collections, which are revisited in this new exhibition. Two hundred artworks, archival documents, photographs, videos, paintings, objects, and migration stories from the three holdings enter into dialogue to unearth this part of our history and to transmit the memory and voices of the witnesses of these contemporary odysseys.
 


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Conference by Nagham Hodaifa at the Giacometti Foundation - 19 November 2025

14 November 2025

The gallery is delighted to announce a conference by Nagham Hodaifa, an artist and researcher we proudly represent, taking place on November 19, 2025 at the Giacometti Foundation in Paris. Her presentation will be dedicated to the work of MARWAN, an artist with whom we had the pleasure of collaborating in 2015.

The Face as a Fundamental Question

At the heart of this conference lies an essential inquiry shared by both MARWAN and Giacometti: What is a face? What is a head? For each of them, the head becomes a space of investigation — a place where presence, emotion and the human condition converge.
Nagham Hodaifa will highlight decisive moments in MARWAN’s artistic journey, particularly his work from the 1960s, renowned for its powerful expressiveness and extraordinary richness of drawing. She will also present materials drawn from her long-term research and from the in-depth conversations she conducted with the artist during the last decade of his life, including insights that have never before been made public.

In Dialogue with the Exhibition “GIACOMETTI / MARWAN OBSESSIONS”

This conference accompanies the exhibition running from October 21, 2025 to January 25, 2026, which stages an unprecedented dialogue between Giacometti and MARWAN. The exhibition highlights their parallel investigations of the head while revealing the distinctive approaches shaped by their different cultural and artistic contexts.
The November 19 event will therefore offer a thoughtful and illuminating perspective on this artistic encounter, guided by the sensitive eye of an artist and researcher who knew MARWAN’s work intimately.