Opening - Claude Marx: From One World to Another

Show & Culture

Born into a Jewish family in 1934, Claude Marx saw his childhood turned upside down by the war. Hunted during the Occupation, he owed his survival to neighbours who hid him at the risk of their own lives. In 1944, an uncle who had escaped a roundup joined the family with a Rolleiflex camera and introduced young Claude to photography. A vocation was born. Since then, Claude Marx has photographed the world with curiosity, patience and instinct. His work bears witness both to the beauty of people and to their fragility in the face of time and the transformations of the world. This exhibition also celebrates the energy of life. The street holds an essential place: poetic, comical or cruel scenes, moments captured on the spot, and fragments of a universal everyday life where borders fade in favour of a shared humanity. Between light and gravity, closeness and distance, his images remind us that what matters may lie in what connects us to one another. This exhibition offers a sensitive journey through the work of a man who sought to preserve traces of humanity before they disappeared.