Georges Didi-Huberman

Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher and art historian. He teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Since 1982 he has published about 50 books on the history and theory of images, the most recent of which, dating from 2013, being L’Album de l’art à l’époque du “Musée imaginaire” (Hazan) and Phalènes. Essais sur l’apparition, 2 (Minuit). He organized several exhibitions including “L’Empreinte” at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, 1997), “Fables du lieu” at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Tourcoing, 2001), “Atlas” at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2010), and recently, with Arno Gisinger, “Histoires de fantômes pour grandes personnes” at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, 2012) and the Museo de Arte do Rio (Rio de Janeiro, 2013). The exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo is a completely new—and final—version of the latter.