The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski´s votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world´s most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski´s own story is little known and has never been fully told. Published on the occasion of the artist´s sixty-fifth birthday, The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski, written in the form of a book-length interview (which the artist likens to a "psychoanalysis" or "confession") with the art historian Catherine Grenier, is Boltanski´s oral autobiography.