The fruition of several years of exchanges between two artists from different generations, One and Other is based on the shared passion of Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel for the many objects they have collected worldwide.  Sacred or secular objects from various cultures, made from unexpected materials, some of which referring to wartimes, will be on show alongside both artists' works and those of other artists.

"The fact of feeling the deep emotion, emanating from these modestly immense objects, was the starting point of our dialogue. (...) These objects are things we have collected, or just encountered during the course of our lives, and more particularly those that have powerfully built up questionings: be they traditional objects coming from other cultures, immaterial objects such as texts, music, political speeches, or else the works of other artists. The idea for our upcoming exhibition at Palais de Tokyo is to display our thought, so as to share it, both through works by artists, and everyday objects, and to show how each object is fully charged with energy, meaning and poetry without us realising it."
Kader Attia

"Metaphorically, the desire behind our interest in these various objects and the variety of their aesthetic and ethical values is to reproduce our questionings about society and its structures."
Kader Attia

“Hybrid by birth, polyglot by necessity, belonging to different generations and living in different countries, nomadic by preference and by principle, we instinctively discovered or rediscovered what it takes to make collective art (...)”
Jean-Jacques Lebel