Portraits of America

Understanding today’s America?


The Maillol Museum and the Tempora agency are presenting, starting April 27, 2024, a photography exhibition by artist Andres Serrano to better understand an America engaged in an electoral battle crucial for its future.

More than a photographer, Andres Serrano can be considered an “artist with a camera” as he defines himself.
Through his carefully staged photographs, he reveals an often disturbing reality of America. Religion, death, sex, politics, poverty, and violence permeate the work of the American artist. All facets of an America that is both monumental in its triumphalism and fragile in its contradictions.


A master of portraiture, Serrano magnifies the contemporary individual by relying on classical culture, particularly ancient painting, put at the service of a sacred now tinged with pop culture. he photographer’s gaze is as effective as a revolver aimed at a schizophrenic society of which Donald Trump has become both the symptom and the emblem and which will occupy an obsessive place in the discourse of the Maillol Museum’s exhibition.


Provocative for some, an objective witness to the world for others, Andres Serrano readily focuses on the taboos that a puritanical America wants to hide. Some of his shots, likely to shock and sometimes vandalized during previous exhibitions, will therefore be presented in a dedicated space. In total, visitors will discover 89 iconic works of the various themes addressed by the artist.