Christian Boltanski is one of the key figures of contemporary creation. The exhibition “Life in the making” is a a vast journey into the heart of his work, his personal history and a half-century of meditations on the role and discourse of the artist in today’s societies. Thirty-five years have gone by since the first exhibition of Christian Boltanski at the Centre Pompidou Paris. Thirty-five years that saw his work transformed in the course of the 1980s when the artist abandoned the taste for archives and inventories that had made him known as one of the major figures in memorial art, and began to develop a work in the form of lessons of darkness and a meditation on death through vast installations and exhibits.