| Staving off oblivion and death |
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Christian Boltanski defines his art as classic. Not so much by its form, but by the questionings underpinning it: "chance, God's law, death". There is a continual and fundamental attention to producing a body of work which raises these questions again and again, to such a degree that the very function of the body of work seems to become a way of staving off the nevertheless inescapable oblivion and death. Can art still be considered a shield? Is Christian Boltanski’s art one of resistance? Is it a matter of surviving through this body of work? How can this function be thought of without transcendence? For the artist, his work seeks to give rise to questionings, and not to answer questions. The astonishing capacity that an artwork has of keeping our curiosity aroused, of opening up problems is perhaps the best remedy against that which will not fail to come. Read on: 
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