This art piece is done by Christian Boltanski. Christian is French, born in 1944 and lives in Paris. He calls this piece "Lumières (blue square - sylvie) and it was made in 2000. This art piece is made out of incandescent light bulbs and gelatin silver print. This piece really caught my eye when i saw it because I've never seen something like it before. Usually when I see art it's a photograph/painting or a sculpture but this is a bunch of light bulbs lined up with each other in rows with what looks like a mirror in the middle. Boltanski builds altars to memory and loss. Naked bulbs cast a ghostly blue glow around photos he finds at antique shops and flea markets. We can't really make eye contact with "sylvie." Who is out of focus and obscured by the wire; the piece is supposed to mimic the way memories shift and fade. Boltanski was deeply affected by his Jewish father's stories of hiding in Paris during World War II. We don't really know if Sylvie was a hidden person, or even if Sylview as Jewish, but Boltanski transforms her into and icon of humanity.
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