From 19 October to 9 November 2018, the Past Futures exhibition assembles some twenty works chosen by curator Caroline Messensee.

Past Futures offers a journey on three levels through multiple worlds – installations, videos, photos, drawings, paintings, interactive objects, etc. – bringing together young creative figures and established artists, such as Christian Boltanski, Jean-Michel Alberola, Arotin & Serghei, Charlotte Charbonnel, Jan Fabre, Fabrice Hyber, Mehdi Meddaci, Albertine Meunier and Claire Morgan.

Through intimate accounts, reconstructed memories and image-rich predictions, the exhibition’s artistic path asks questions about concepts of temporality and invites the public into sometimes elusive space-time dimensions.

The Past Futures exhibition addresses the major themes of time, sharing and legacy, which are strong Guerlain values.

190 years! This is also an opportunity to pay tribute to the artists who have largely inspired the world of Guerlain throughout its evolution. Through commissions, exhibitions, collections, collaborations and encounters, Guerlain has been fully committed since it was founded in 1828 to promoting creative talent and forging special links with the contemporary arts scene.

Under the title Past Futures, the artists take on a burning hot topic, symbolised in particular by the transition from the analogue to the digital era or, in other words, from the real to the virtual world. Experienced or imagined? Memory or story? Many artists study the similarity between loss of memory and loss of identity or the way in which individual memory is created through the intermediary of collective memory…