May 5 - June 17, 2010


In Thailand monks predict that their country’s fate lies in water - flooding will destroy their homeland, cities in the north whose names begin with either “Chiang” or “Lam” will be spared, all the others will be ravaged by the deluge.

For his fourth solo show at Galerie Chantal Crousel, aptly titled Asile Flottant, the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija has constructed a sketch of Le Corbusier’s boat of the same name and inserted a section of it into the gallery. Le Corbusier’s barge was designed for the Salvation Army literally as a floating asylum meant to provide temporary overnight shelter for vagrants wandering the streets of Paris. Tiravanija’s barge, constructed in Chiang Mai, Thailand, will serve as a pavilion that houses both political T-shirts designed by the artist, and others that have been collected from all over the world. Highlighting the ability of what we wear to act as a platform for interaction and communication, Tiravanija activates the T-shirt as political space.


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March 13 - April 24, 2010


Many visitors may recall the splendid integration of Mona Hatoum’s works in two very different, historically and privately marked environments : at Darat al Funun (the Khalid Shoman Foundation) in Amman, Jordan, 2008 and at Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice, in 2009.

The same works presently shown in the neutral, white gallery space in Paris allow yet another reading. Indeed, a number of intimate or domestic elements, integrating furniture, hair, knicknacks, drawings, medal, dialogue with objects usually found in the public (outdoor) space: city-maps, canon balls and barbed wire. These powerful and efficient confrontations take place in an apparently playful contrast to skillfully diverted materials and altered scales. They all have in common the ever present consciousness of the fragility and the preciousness of life. As in the past, Mona Hatoum’s work transmits the essence of awareness, unsettledness, beauty and


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January 30 - March 5, 2010


At the far end of the source, there is the echo.
The echo is the image of your image.
The voice of your voice.
The echo is heavy water that darkens with time.

Entitled Eco (Spanish for Echo), José María Sicilia’s exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, the sixth since 1983, marks a decisive turning point in the artist’s oeuvre. He explores here new techniques and media leading to a deep introspection on one’s self and the world.


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