BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD

Everytime A Knot is Undone A God is Released presents a selection of her most recent works, including bronze sculptures from the ‘Standing Black Woman of Venice’ series. It also features a number of works embroidered on paper with white thread: these near-illegible texts offer a delicate evocation of her literary oeuvre, which will also be present in the exhibition through a listening room where her writing will be read by multiple voices.

With this exhibition, the Palais de Tokyo is joining a collective, nationwide celebration of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s oeuvre that has been devised in conversation with Donatien Grau and Erin Gilbert, in collaboration with seven other Parisian institutions: the Centre Pompidou, the Musée National des arts Asiatiques – Guimet, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, the Palais de la Porte Dorée, the Cité de la Musique, and the Philharmonie de Paris.