The Bride with Two Faces (La mariée à double face), 1927 Oil on canvas transposed, relined 99 4/5 × 73 in | 253.5 × 185.4 cm

Chagall: Witness of His Time will offer visitors an immersive journey into the artist’s poetic and visionary world. Through a rich and emotionally powerful display, the exhibition explores the key themes that shaped Chagall’s life and work. This remarkable journey reveals how Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 – Saint-Paul de Vence, 1985) – renowned worldwide for his floating figures and dreamlike, vividly coloured compositions – preserved the memory of his homeland, its traditions, and the people and places he held dear, while continuously projecting them toward new expressive horizons. Through 200 works, including paintings, drawings, and engravings, and two immersive rooms presenting some of Chagall’s monumental creations within a captivating, multisensory setting, the exhibition reveals the profound humanity at the core of his art. A multifaceted figure, Chagall was both a visionary and a witness of his time, a poet of beauty and a custodian of memory. Fragmented faces, multiplying profiles, mirrored portraits: through the recurring theme of the double, he reveals his extraordinary ability to capture the duality of human existence. Flying lovers, talking animals, and explosive bouquets transcend the visible world to become universal metaphors. Through his poetic gaze, Chagall transforms personal experience into shared reflection, showing how beneath the apparent simplicity of his creations lie themes that resonate deeply: identity, exile, spirituality, and the joy of life. In an age marked by fragmentation, Chagall reminds us that art can serve as a bridge between distant worlds, a synthesis of seemingly irreconcilable traditions and a faithful reflection of humanity’s deepest aspirations and contradictions. His work celebrates an emotional truth that gives form to the most intimate dimensions of the soul, lifting it toward a beauty capable of revealing, even amid the darkest moments of history, glimmers of peace and understanding.