CNAP: Faire familles - Making Families

Program - Paris Photo 2025

For this new edition, the Cnap presents a selection of five artists emblematic of its policy of enriching the national collections.

Donna Gottschalk, Lesbian Mother and Child, San Francisco, California, 1973
– Courtesy of the artist & CNAP

Carolle Bénitah, Photo de groupe, 2012 – Courtesy of the artist & CNAP

About

The exhibition Faire Familles - Making Families features Carolle Bénitah, Donna Gottschalk, Nhu Xuan Hua, Yveline Loiseur, and Vasantha Yogananthan, five photographers whose works have recently entered the collection.

Their works are brought together around the idea of family, viewed through the lens of social changes and the politics of intimacy. Families endured, chosen, of the heart, lived, or imagined are represented by the artists, both through the marks of attachment and the codes of vernacular photography. The exhibition also addresses the question of migration, exile, and their effects on the family and its memory—transmitted, lost, or reconstructed. Bonds between individuals, differences and similarities are explored in a context where the institution of the family is reconsidered through various forms of belonging.

Exhibited artists:

Carolle Bénitah | Donna Gottschalk | Nhu Xuan Hua | Yveline Loiseur | Vasantha Yogananthan