40 YEARS OF HIV

Items from the Pasteur Museum in the exhibition "The HIV era. Works of art, personal accounts and interconnections"

From October 6 to February 24, 2024, the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art will be hosting the exhibition "The HIV era. Works of art, personal accounts and interconnections," which explores the era since the discovery of HIV and the fact that the epidemic is still ongoing despite major medical advances.

The past 40 years have seen moments of fear, grief, courage, solidarity and hope, all of which have inspired forms of creation that can continue to serve as a source of encouragement for our time. The multidisciplinary exhibition "The HIV era" presents four decades of creation in which art, literature, music, cinema and dance have come alongside scientific research, popular culture and the decisive action of charities and associations.

In connection with the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the discovery of HIV, the Pasteur Museum was contacted by the organizers and the curator of the exhibition, and it agreed to lend three ceramics produced for the Institut Pasteur in 2017 by Hervé di Rosa, an artist and member of the Organoid program (see the newsletter from December 8, 2017): a plate with a likeness of Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, an "HIV and lymphocyte" plate and a "Viruses and microbes" urn. A lithograph by Olivier Schwartz, Head of the Virus and Immunity Unit, is also being loaned to the exhibition.

Photos : François Gardy / Institut Pasteur

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