Julião Sarmento: Two-Part Exhibition at Galerie Daniel Templon and Galerie de France

Julião Sarmento presents a double exhibition in Paris: recent works at Galerie Daniel Templon (January 7 – February 18, 2012) and works from the 1970s at the new Galerie de France space, Le Studiolo (January 7 – February 11, 2012). The exhibitions highlight the continuity of Sarmento's practice, marked by recurring obsessions such as the relationship between literature and visual arts. At Galerie de France, Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves' inspired a conceptual piece combining original text pages with the artist's photographs. The exhibitions are linked by a focus on the scopic drive and the desire to see a woman's body gradually undressed. The recent video 'R.O.C. (40 plus one)' shows a woman slowly undressing while reciting a text about Wittgenstein's colors. Other works feature a leg in a stocking intruding into the frame or a breast appearing frontally across canvases. Le Studiolo, directed by Catherine Thieck, is a space dedicated to exploring intersections between literature and visual arts, aiming to rediscover lesser-known parts of an artist's oeuvre from the 1970s.