Image Storage containers - Jeff Weber

The exhibition will be open on Friday June, 23 for the public holiday! 

In a series of six photographs, artist Jeff Weber documents the restoration process undertaken on the large “Ivy Mike” hydrogen bomb test photo, carried out by Studio Berselli of Milan as part of a general restoration of The Family of Man between 2011 and 2013 under the auspices of the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), where the exhibition has been on permanent display since 1994. Outside of the delicious paradox presented by documenting a restoration process conducted on an image depicting destruction on a monumental scale, Weber, an artist notable for an interest in blurring what can properly be considered inside or outside a work of art, has described his motivation as a move to contextualize The Family of Man within the era of its creation—the Cold War and nuclear arms race. So contextualized, his photographs of the restoration process become both an antithetical representation of the exhibition and an uncannily accurate depiction of the pervasive political atmosphere in which it traveled.

Michel Baers (excerpt from text All That Is Solid Melts into Light, 2022)

Curator: Michèle Walerich, CNA

Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 10 pm | Free Admission

Image Caption:

Jeff Weber, Ivy Mike (The Family of Man), 2011-2013

Restoration of photographs from the collection The Family of Man at the CNA by Studio Berselli, 2011-2013