Paris Internationale 2024

In Nino Kapanadze’s recent body of work a garden, just like a canvas, outgrows limits of purely visible field and becomes a mise en scène for repetitive enchantment, speculation and observation. Here, presented painterly settings stay hyper-sensible to light and are devoted to silence. Finding expressions in simultaneously uneasy, tender and dramatic manners, the most recent paintings break their immediate ways through seasons that are never quite so certain.

Naoki Sutter-Shudo’s sculpture is direct and sensitive. That is to say, it has, at first glance, a form of formal evidence, a silent eurhythmics, which contrasts with the multiplicity of small narratives, whispered intimate references, coincidences or déjà-vus that seem to have composed it. They rest on a quasi-impossible equilibrium, whether it is a question of physical properties, iconography, or meaning.

Jessi Reaves combines iconic modernist design with an irreverent aesthetic in sculpture that toys with functionality. She often begins with found furniture, which she dismantles, converts, remakes, enhances, pads, and embellishes in ways that still allow the suggestion of physical contact or use. By breaking things open, she proposes that they be reexamined visually, in the light of renovation and rebellion.