Barbara Kruger's 'The History of Tears' Inaugurates 'Remember Me' at Bourse de Commerce in Paris

Key facts

• Barbara Kruger's installation 'The History of Tears' was inaugurated in the Rotonda of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris
• The installation launches the group exhibition 'Remember Me' at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
• Kruger was born in Newark in 1945
• The installation extends across walls and floor of Tadao Ando's concrete architecture and into the 24 windows of the Passage as lightboxes
• The work uses white, black and red, echoing pieces such as 'Your Body is a Battleground' and 'I Shop Therefore I Am'
• The video 'Power, Pleasure, Desire, Disgust' was created for the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and first shown in 1996
• The exhibition 'Remember Me' is curated by Matthieu Humery with Lola Regard and marks the bicentenary of the invention of photography
• The exhibition features 70 artists and around seven hundred works, running from 7 October 2026 to 18 January 2027