At the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, watch the atom fall – Libération

In Paris, a major exhibition traces the evolution of our relationship with nuclear power through modern art, from the discovery of radioactivity to the bomb, to its current omnipresence.

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How to speak of the unspeakable, how to represent the unrepresentable? By placing Günther Anders at the forefront of the “Atomic Age” exhibition, the two curators Julia Garimorth and Maria Stavrinaki set the tone, and open a reflection between arts, science and politics on what Anders called the obsolescence of man : his inability to control the destructive machine that he himself invented. If the exhibition strongly resonates with our current geopolitical situation and the risk of military escalation, it also highlights the permanence of the atom throughout the history of art from the end of the 19th century to the present day. By its ambition, its historical and political amplitude, this major exhibition is in line with the important previous exhibition by the art historian Maria Stavrinaki (“Prehistory, a modern enigma”, which she co-directed at the Pompidou Center). We also find there certain