Exhibition guide
This new exhibition to be discovered at the Musée de l'Homme is the result of the meeting between Samuel Pavard, biodemographer and specialist in aging at the Museum, and Nikos Aliagas, artist photographer.
Visit details
- Dates: From Wednesday April 8, 2026 to Sunday January 3, 2027: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- Venue: Musée de l'Homme, 17, place du Trocadéro, Paris
- Price: De 12 à 15 euros.
- Audience: All audiences
- Source: Event page
About the exhibition
This exhibition, at the crossroads of art and science, aims to highlight old age as a biological, demographic and social reality, through a series of photographs.
Behind the lens, the artist Nikos Aliagas captures everyday scenes and creates striking portraits. Some of his most beautiful photographs mixed with the scientific reflections of researcher Samuel Pavard can be discovered in the Foyer Germaine Tillion (250 m²).
By combining their lucid and delicate views on old age, the exhibition invites us to question our relationship with time, the place we give to elderly people in our societies and the links that different generations forge between them.
It compares human longevity to that of the rest of life and enlightens the public on the fundamental place that the oldest have occupied in the history of our species for its cognitive, social and cultural evolution.
While today new age classes are emerging, illustrated by the growing proportion of centenarians and over, the exhibition questions the complex reality of life in old age as well as new representations of old age in our contemporary societies.
Finally, by promoting the link that exists between the question of old age and that of the health of our planet, it reaffirms the legitimacy of our collective desire to live longer lives despite a world prey to brutal environmental changes.