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- The Upstairs Artwork Honest debuts in Paris at Lodge Grand Amour, coinciding with Artwork Basel Paris
- Highlights embrace India Sachi’s first European solo present and half gallery’s suitcase present that includes narrative painters and summary works
The Upstairs Artwork Honest made its European debut in Paris this week, reworking the Lodge Grand Amour into an intimate showcase of latest artwork. Initially launched in Amagansett in 2017, the truthful rapidly gained a popularity for spotlighting rising expertise, with early contributors together with now-celebrated names resembling Ewa Juszkiewicz, Louise Bonnet and Anna Weyant. After a six-year hiatus, the truthful returns with room takeovers by Half Gallery, Megan Mulrooney and Bureau Artwork, coinciding with Artwork Basel Paris.
Among the many highlights is New York-based artist India Sachi’s first solo and European presentation, curated by Sarah Daoui. Put in inside a lodge suite, the exhibition explores themes of reminiscence, intimacy, and metamorphosis, drawing on Sachi’s childhood experiences of residing in inns whereas touring along with her father. Her works, typically rooted in self-portraiture, merge figures with foliage and decoration to discover concealment and shapeshifting. The presentation locations Sachi’s apply in dialogue with ladies surrealists resembling Leonor Fini and Claude Cahun, reframing the Parisian inside as a web site of resistance, transformation, and self-authored id.
half gallery, led by director Erin Goldberger, contributes a “suitcase present” within the lodge’s penthouse, that includes artists from its roster together with Andie Dinkin, Leonard Child, Emiliana Henriquez and Hiejin Yoo. Recognized for his or her narrative work that blur the road between fiction and lived expertise, these works are complemented by summary items from Demetrius Wilson and Angela China. Collectively, the presentation underscores Half Gallery’s custom of embracing unconventional exhibition areas, providing guests a domestic-scale encounter with works that stability fantasy, reminiscence, and abstraction throughout the intimate setting of the truthful.
Ending on October 24, The Upstairs Artwork Honest is free and open to the general public.
Upstairs Artwork Honest
Lodge Grand Amour
18 Rue de la Fidélité,
75010 Paris, France
