Esthétiques de l'Amour - quai Branly

Culture|Passy Village

Exhibition: Esthétiques de l’Amour

For its new exhibition, the musée du quai Branly takes an interest in decorative arts of Far Eastern Siberia, and presents a new collection of ancient objects collected in the late 19^th and early in the 20^th century. All pieces presented evoke the interaction between the men’s world, the spirit’s world, and the wild nature. Visitors will have the occasion to admire protective dresses made of fish-skin, but also rituals accessories decorated with symbolical spirals or volutes, and everyday implements. This retrospective enlightens us about the life of these populations from the Amur River basin, as the Aïnous, the Nivkh, the Orotch, the Nanaï and the Hezhe (Chinese minority). They besides lived until the middle of the 20^th century at the Amur River. All these populations are bind together by the practice of salmonids hunting and fishing. People can discover this event nearby the Green Hotels Paris (the Eiffel Trocadéro and the Gavarni hotel), in order to understand all the richness of these people named “barbarian with fish-skin”.

“Esthétiques de l’Amour” exhibition (“Amur’s aesthetic” exhibition) from November 3^rd 2015 to January 17^th 2016.
Open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm.
Nocturnal on Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 9pm.
Full rate: €9 / Concession: €7.

Quai Branly Museum. Poster: Amur’s aesthetic, Far Eastern Siberia.
From November 3^rd 2015 to January 17^th 2016.