Exhibition guide

Through the prism of contemporary art and the light of scientific data, the Origins exhibition questions one of the most powerful and persistent factors of discrimination in our society. The “origin”, real or fantasized, is a cause of exclusion and stigmatization on a daily basis. An often deaf reality, which nevertheless shapes collective and individual trajectories, from childhood.

Visit details

  • Dates: From Friday June 5, 2026 to Sunday August 23, 2026: Saturday, Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
  • Venue: Palais de la Porte Dorée - Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, 293 avenue Daumesnil, Paris
  • Price: Billet et réservation Plein tarif : 12 € Tarif réduit : 9 €
  • Audience: Public enfants et jeunes.
  • Source: Event page

About the exhibition

of exclusion, by questioning the way in which views are constructed and perpetuated.

Based on recent research in the social sciences, and in particular on the European project UNDETERRED* - UNintentional Discrimination dETected and Racism REveal and Deactivate - the course highlights the structural, sometimes unconscious, nature of Coordinated by the University of Bordeaux, it takes as its starting point the empirical analysis of six cities – Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Bucharest, Lausanne, Quebec – to highlight the way in which structural discrimination runs through public policies and the daily life of young people. discrimination.

Exhibition curatorFarah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou, exhibition curator, programmer, researcherAccompanied by Olivier Bedoin, exhibition assistant at the National Museum of the History of Immigration. Advice At the origins - Crossed perspectives on racism and discriminationFrom June 5 to August 23, 2026

The exhibitionDiscrimination is often born from a simple glance. scientistPatrick Simon, demographer, National Institute of Demographic StudiesJacques Toubon, former Minister of Culture and Justice, formerWithout forgetting the concrete effects in daily life, particularly among the youngest. People of foreign origin and/or perceived as such suffer massively from this. Access to education, employment, housing or care: all areas where this spiral produces lasting inequalities.

Echoing the figures, the works of contemporary artists bear witness to the sensitive side of this discrimination: fatigue, obstacles, but also the forms of resistance and solidarity that result from them are all intimate, lasting and often invisible effects of these.

At the origins is a way This "origin" - real, supposed or fantasized - is the source of tenacious stereotypes, which often condition life paths from childhood.

Through the subversive gaze of contemporary artists - including the Chevalme sisters, Patrick Zachmann, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Hamedine Kane - and unpublished data, the exhibition At the origins invites us to go back to the source of these mechanisms of stigmatization and to invite everyone to question their own perceptions and to envisage a society freed from these mechanisms of discrimination in its daily life.

* The UNDETERRED project intends to contribute to the fight against systemic discrimination suffered by European youth (18/35 years old) in the areas of health, housing, education and employment.