Exhibition “Those who remain” at the Mineralogy Museum

On-site

Du 15 October 2025 au 13 December 2025

The Mines Paris – PSL Mineralogy Museum is inaugurating its very first contemporary exhibition with Those who remain, on display from October 15 to December 13, 2025. Curated by Joseph Dubrule and Mara Di Maggio, artist Maceo Goy-Clairet draws on the mineralogical collections to bring together science, heritage, and contemporary creation through a series of original works that question our relationship with minerals and the memory of forms.

The Mines Paris – PSL Mineralogy Museum is opening its doors for the first time to a contemporary exhibition featuring exclusively new works: Those who remain by Maceo Goy-Clairet, curated by Joseph Dubrule and Mara Di Maggio.

Through this collaboration, the institution confirms and renews its dialogue between science, heritage, and contemporary creation. A former student of the museum’s drawing classes, which the artist attended during his youth, Maceo Goy-Clairet returns today with a fresh perspective, nourished by his studies in decorative arts.

Through a series of new works, he questions the status of minerals, objects of fascination, collection, and human projection.

“The obsession with collecting, naming, and classifying objects reflects a deep desire for mastery, order, and understanding of the world,” wrote Jean Baudrillard.

The Mineralogy Museum is the epitome of this obsession, and the exhibition Those Who Remain explores its profound resonances. Through processes such as electrolysis, molding, and glass blowing, the artist re-enacts and accelerates natural processes, offering his own collection of stones that reveal less their reflections than our obsessions with them.

Among the five thousand samples on display in the museum, Those Who Remain refers to what persists: not only geological matter, but the inexhaustible human desire to inhabit eternity and master what escapes us. With critical distance, the exhibition creates tension between the immutable rigor of minerals and the creative urgency of humans, inviting visitors to rethink their relationship to time, matter, and their own finitude.