Yohanne Lamoulère, « Le mythe de Gyptis et Protis - Des histoires d’amour à Marseille », novembre 2016 - janvier 2017 FNAC 2017-0041 (6) Collection du Centre national des arts plastiques  Credit © Yohanne Lamoulère / Cnap
Yohanne Lamoulère, « Le mythe de Gyptis et Protis - Des histoires d’amour à Marseille », novembre 2016 - janvier 2017 FNAC 2017-0041 (6) Collection du Centre national des arts plastiques Credit © Yohanne Lamoulère / Cnap 
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Origins. Cross Perspectives on Racism and Discriminations

05/06/2026 - 23/08/2026

Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration 
293, avenue Daumesnil 
 
75012 Paris

www.histoire-immigration.fr   

 
Through the lens of contemporary art and guided by scientific data, the exhibition Origins questions one of the most powerful and persistent factors of discrimination in our society. ‘Origin’—whether real or imagined—is a cause of daily exclusion and stigmatisation. It is a reality that often goes unacknowledged, even though it shapes both collective and individual life paths from the earliest childhood.
Discrimination often stems from a simple glance. People of a foreign origin and/or those perceived as such bear the heavy burden of this discrimination. This ‘origin’ – whether real, presumed or imagined – is the source of persistent stereotypes, which often shape people’s life paths from childhood onwards. Through the subversive gaze of contemporary artists – including the sœurs Chevalme, Patrick Zachmann, Euridice Zaituna Kala and Hamedine Kane – and previously unseen data, the exhibition Origins invites us to trace these mechanisms of stigmatisation and exclusion back to their source, by examining how perceptions are formed and perpetuated.