Pascal Convert
Artist
Biography
Pascal Convert (born 1957) is a French artist, historian and writer whose work centres on memory and forgetting. Working across sculpture, glass, photography, film and writing, he was a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome in 1989, and in 1998 the philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman devoted a book to his work, La demeure, la souche. He is the author of a number of emblematic public works engaging with history and remembrance, among them the monument to the hostages and resistance fighters executed at Mont-Valérien between 1941 and 1944 – a large bronze bell inscribed with the names of the 1,008 identified victims (2002) – and a set of fourteen stained-glass windows portraying nineteenth-century children held in asylums, made for the abbey church of Saint-Gildas-des-Bois (2008).